Show Notes
This week's episode features a diplomatic game that Napoleon somehow found a way to lose.
The invasion of France itself, an abdication, exile and the last shots of a six-year war fought by two men who didn't know it was already over.
There is also a parallel drama unfolding in Washington and Baltimore plus the status quo gets rearranged in Scandinavia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It's 1813 - Napoleon is back in Paris and he has put together a new army.
In the sixth and final part of this min-series we follow the remnants of Napoleons Grande Armée as they plod they plod their way, half-starved and half-frozen, back towards safety.
Napoleon had sat in an empty, burned-out Moscow for weeks waiting for a response from Alexander.
Today we are going to see how and why Napoleon reached Moscow so easily