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At Waterloo Murat who have done better than Ney by far by heading the calavlry.

Napoleon thought Murat was too much like a Jethro Bodine

sounds like this was the chief of staff Napoleon needed during the 100 days. Congrats for your work.

Fascinating stuff. Good to learn about the women and sociology involved in these great events, I rarely hear about much beyond the generals and grand campaigns. Thank you!

Being Chief of Staff to Murat must’ve been one infuriating experience.

Napoleon started 1812 campaign with 700.000. men, out of which 600.000. were a pushing frontline element. At Smolensk his main army, his spearheading "group center" had 220.000. men. At Borodino it had 130.000. men (and 570 cannons) out of which the battle substracted 30.000. casualties. Vs intial French 600.000., Russians started 1812 with 250.000. men. Now, at Borodino, they had 120.000. and 640 cannons. Despite the Borodino loss of 44.000., amidst their "neighborhood" full of young, middle aged and older men ready to bear arms, their numbers were swelling. The end total of this Russian brilliantly strategically lead campaign, where their talented, educated and skilled officer cadre executed logical and rational decisions, was 250.000. Russian and 500.000. French (allied) casualties. It was a resounding victory with immense strategic consequences. History shows us that Russians, among many things including the perceived and projected show of force, at times, similarly to Napoleon at Austerlitz, know how to advantageously utilize when they were being underestimated. A cunning enemy that approaches military craft as a scientific discipline. To be underestimated to one's peril.

Another 1815 mistake of not employing Davout as a corp commander, not letting him be glued to the desk in Paris as a war minister. After the attrition of the previous decade that thinned his capable high rankers able to successfully wield huge bodies of men, despite the lack of horses (14.000. cavalrymen in an Army of 130.000. - immediately facing combined 220.000. enemies) he still had options to make his main striking force in Belgium more qualitatively competitive. Grouchy hitting at Vavre (why did Napoleon divide his force in the first place?) despite hearing massive barrage in the direction of Waterloo was not Marengo's savior Dessaix. They marched divided but they didn't fight concentrated! Mediocrity, "it won't do!" (1977 Duellists) to pull the successful interior lines "dancing" act like in Italy or in 1814 France. Only the best can avoid getting crushed while being lodged between two campaign ending forces. In such a precarious situation mistakes and bad judgement can lead to catastrophes. Suchet would have probably been a crafty battlefield/planning and plans executing fox in the 1815 Belgium, able to finish the maneuvering and fighting dance successfully to the end. But what after 100.000. Wellington lead and 120.000. Blucher lead enemies are defeated? There's 220.000. Austrians on the Rhine and a Russian rezerve army 150.000. strong marching through Bohemia. Neither of which would relent in their need to end this Ogre, this upsetter and occupier, once and forever. These Austrians are now finely tuned for war Austrians of 1809-1814, and Russians, they fought uninteruptibly the most tooth and nail bloodily with the French up from Suvorov's 1799. Trebia and Novi - the former being the bloodiest battle of the whole French Revolutionary wars epoch, only to be surpassed in bloodiness by Novi Ligure as both the French and the Russians were conscription based, depended upon the high fired up elan of their conscripts and eagerly went to melee in attacking columns. How would battered victorious Napoleon's force in Belgium now fare with the Austrians who are again breaching into French soil? And even if that massive hammer is stopped, there's another one, throughout decades consistently tenacious ranks and files thinning Russian one. How would Suchet end up in this imagined scenario of the constant massive previously unheard-of consecutive grand battles strain? With such forces, like in Belgium, they wouldn't skirmish but engage in one grand battle after another. That'll be Napoleon's, Ney's, Davout's and Suchet's ultimate test of fighting against the odds.

i wouldn't say it's pro napoleon book it's just state how it was and as it was adam zymnosky once put it that napoleon was just ordinary dude who was just lucky well as napoleon himself also knew quite well that having good lcuk is part of ones ability.

My favorite Marshall. A movie should be made about his a Napoleons relationship. I would love to have heard the yelling matches they had on the battlefield.

just found this channel! Thanks For all your hardwork! Napoleón was great! Always happy to learn more about His era 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

it's hard to find greater hero in napoleonic history than larrey as far as im concerned. he was so devoted to the wellfare of the common soldiers that he willingly stayed behind in egypt to care for them even when napoleon offered him the chance to return earlier

Napoleons 1813 battles in Germany happened in many of the same places as Frederick's battles. I would imagine it heavily influenced Napoleons choice in where to give battle having seen similar engagements already fought there. It was also a morale boost for Prussian armies knowing they had already won a battle there.

i’ve been listening to a number of episodes the past few days, and i got to say i enjoy these detailed Stories very much. Keep up the excellent work!!

This is just a teaser of our full episode on Spanish generals Cuesta and Blake.

Was Caroline a deft political operator or a greedy opportunist who just cared about herself?

Andrews napoleon the great is also fantastic!

Great episode as always! Would love more stuff focusing on the various parts of Bernadottes fascinating life.

all of his medals

wish i commented sooner please reach out if you can

this is my dads great great great granddad something like this we have his medals and family tree all of it im new to this but reach out

Fascinating episode on the later career of Marshal Bernadotte! Comment here and support each other by subscribing to each others' channels. Let's build a community!

what what a chunker, 1000 pages

I Just want that picture of His marshals 🤩

Am I mistaken thinking the senior Kellermann was appointed head of the Senate after his military service?

General François Étienne Kellermann fought at Waterloo on the side of Napoleon, under the command of Marshal Ney. Marshal François Christophe Kellermann (his father and the Peer of France) on 6 December 1815 voted in the Chamber of Peers for the execution of Marshal Ney for his supporting of Napoleon and betrayal of the King . Logical question: would Marshal Kellermann vote for the execution of his own son as well? Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Spelling error > it's Kellermann - with two 'NN' at the end. You may want to change that in the title so that search engines will recognize your clip in results more quickly.

Really enjoyed this episode.

Nicely done by Charles Mackay!

Episodes are amazing! Thank you for everything!

I think the closest to the brilliance in terms of tactics used by Napoleon in Austerlitz is Rivoli. I think Jena also has a good shout. But its just that Napoleon was outnumbered in Rivoli and was quite surrounded yet he managed to win the battle with boldness, confidence, brilliant tactics and the discipline of the army👌

Really enjoyed this New Years Day episode.

Where i can get these arts

I am really planning to finish David Chandler's book about Napoleon, so I could quickly move to this masterpiece!

This book is my first book relating to Napoleon and his wars. I am still reading it and It is very entertaining, but has allot of information's that I sometimes get lost. But these details are exactly what I like!!!

My Prince, Zamoyski, you must speak more

Mr. North does an excellent job as a guest on this episode.

Great episode especially detailing the set up to the battle. Using the psychology and terrain against the enemy was a masterstroke of war. The Mongols were perhaps the best at this before Napoleon to employ such methods. The fight between Bagration and Murat/Lannes is the ignored section of the battle and equally important to the Pratzen heights and worthy of a full length conversation.

Very thorough episode!

Good episode!

One of our most intriguing episodes!

Great work I must say. Indeed, once there was titans