History To Corner Women To | The Napoleonic Wars (Part 1/10)
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Who was Napoleon and why is he considered the first modern propagandist?
Come
on. Come on! Can't have it at 3pm for this. Dinner's ready! Fuck you, Mum! Come on! Oh, it's coming. Better not be another woman guest. It's not a make-up podcast, it's a bloody history podcast.
Welcome back to Finn vs History. Today we start a 10 part series on the Napoleonic War.
History doesn't get more history than this.
Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington, Trafalgar, Waterloo. Goats, guns, and there's no women.
I'm gonna fucking cum.
Welcome back to Finn vs. History. I'm joined by Horatio Gould. I heard the smell of your underwear. And today, I've been the best boy. Oh, I've been a good boy. We're finally starting a 10-part series on the Napoleonic Wars. Christ. I've sat through a week of art. Yep. We've had two women have hit the podcast. You've got your girlfriend on to talk about art and I was very polite. We sat through the suffragettes because I knew there would be a month where the women have to go home and I can just have some nice time by myself and eat meat like a dog. The Napoleonic
Wars. It doesn't get better than this. Well, BB has gone to the fringe, so I've got two weeks at home alone as basically a single man. And this just is the perfect timing. Living on my own as a bloke, and now I'm doing ten parts of the Napoleonic Wars. It's what
Napoleon did this for.
It's what he would have wanted. 200 years
later, for men alone. Women listeners. I imagine there's been many women listeners we've attracted
in the last few months. Active female listeners on campus. It's been nice having you
here, but now you must leave. Okay? It's time for the
boys. It's time. We're going to retire to the Billiards Room to discuss the Napoleonic Wars. Discuss the Napoleonic
Wars. Okay. You can do your sewing and your cross-stitching and your gossiping in the front room. Yes. Okay. Will maps be gotten out? Of course they will. Yes. Will we move things across maps? Yes. Do the figurines have nice coloured uniforms? Yes.
Of course they do. And it's none of your business. Your fucking business. Your fucking business
love. All right. You go and drink sherry in the front room and then your brains will get too tired where the men stay up late and we move troops across hills. The infantry come in, the cavalry come in, the artillery come in.
We say what we would have done with 200 years hindsight. Yes.
And
also,
but this is what I love about Napoleonic Wars is that it's actually warfare you can understand.
Yes, it's probably the sweet spot, wouldn't you say?
Exactly. This is exactly the point I was going to make.
Because, yeah, it's got a level of tactics where it's interesting. It's like sport. I guess it's football in the way that it's like, it's really easy to understand. Yes. Whereas modern stuff is a bit more like cricket where you have to really...
I don't even think, I think people who listen to this podcast will know, when we get into World War II, we're at fucking sea. You know, we can't describe, it's all about who has the most tanks. And it's quite-
I think you can only see, view World War II from a continent-wide lens. But this one you can, yeah.
You can rip this one. You know, this one, I know how Napoleon beat the Austrians at Austerlitz.
And I
will tell you, if you're female, and I corner you in a room, I will tell you how he did it. A corner? Listen, I don't get advice to many parties, but when I do, I will find a lone woman, I will corner her, and
I will say, do you know how
he beat the Austrians at Austerlitz? Do you know how he did it? He ceded the high ground. He left his right flank open. Mind games.
You watch those early Attenborough ones where it's like a lion chasing a pack of bison and the ones who get caught on their own. That's me. Cornering a fat trick at a house party
and laying pipe about Leipzig. Now listen. now listen okay this is uh it's a it's an annual feature of inverse history we take we take a month just to fucking go swimming all right it's test cricket stuff it's our second 10 part
series
now the last one um was controversial yeah um we enjoyed
it
grueling it was people thought oh that's a funny idea and by the time we got to alec douglas you know this isn't fun anymore
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who was Napoleon and why is he considered the first modern propagandist?
0:03–7:18
2
How did Napoleon’s early family life and education shape his ambitions?
7:18–17:08
3
What role did the French Revolution play in launching Napoleon’s career?
17:08–23:47
4
How did the Siege of Toulon become Napoleon’s first major military breakthrough?
23:47–30:42
5
What were the key tactics and successes of Napoleon’s Italian campaign?
30:42–40:52
6
How did Napoleon’s relationship with Josephine affect his personal and political choices?
40:52–49:57
7
What innovations in warfare and propaganda did Napoleon introduce during the Napoleonic Wars?
49:57–59:22
8
What can listeners expect in the next episode about Admiral Horatio Nelson?
59:22–1:02:19
Speakers
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