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Episode 123: Heroes and Rebels

🕑 Added 2025-03-01 05:23:35 +0000 UTC

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Zachary Bair

The Age of Napoleon

You should be able to listen to them on your podcast app. How to do that varies from app to app, Patreon support should be able to help you set it up

The Age of Napoleon

If it works, it works! Sorry about that

Jorge Luna

Thanks! I couldn’t find an answer on neither overcast nor Patreon support pages so I fixed it using the old time trick of “deleting and adding it again” 🙃

The Age of Napoleon

Sorry about that! Unfortunately that's either a Patreon issue or an Overcast issue and there isn't much I can do about it from my end, you'll have to get in touch with their support people. In the meantime, you should still be able to listen on your web browser (not ideal, I know)

Patrick Donovan

Hearing an episode or a dispatch just on Thomas Cochrane would be great, I've read a small part on him and I just can't believe some of his stories

Jorge Luna

Hi, not sure if this is the correct thread to ask but, I’m getting a “not authorized” message for this podcast in my app (overcast) and I cannot listen anymore. It was working correctly for the previous episode. Any ideas?

The Age of Napoleon

Yes, this event really did occur (at least as far as I can tell). I thought about covering it during our episodes on the First Italian Campaign, but we didn't really have time, and I thought it would be more effective to introduce Dumas during our episodes on the Egyptian Campaign, where he played a much more important role.

Robert Maynard

This was one of my favourite episodes lately! The segment on Tyrol was especially evocative of the sweep of time sundered so abruptly by the other events in the main story basically beyond their horizon, and then zooming out and back in elsewhere. Maybe I've just been listening too passively recently, but something about this one really grabbed me. Great!

Isaac Bateman

During the segment on Tyrol, I was reminded of a story I had heard about Alexandre Dumas single handedly driving back a squadron of white shirts on a bridge in Clausen and thus being nicknamed Horatius Cocles by Bonaparte himself, I am not an academic but I was intrigued by this and have struggled to find much specific detail or legitimate information about this. Did it really happen? and if so how did he do it?

Jeff Gillooly

Please please, please a dispatch on Thomas Cochrane. It’s this “age” and he is a character worth enjoying!

Nathaniel Robie

Is it possible to listen to the dispatches on the podcasts app? Or are you only able to listen to them on Patreon?

Andrew Zaiser

As a Kenyon College grad (located in Gambier, Ohio), I did a double-take when James Gambier entered the story, and it turns out this Gambier is the same guy who helped fund Kenyon’s founding!

thurgave

Ayyy slawa Galicji; my grandmother's family was from near Nowy Targ, not far from the border with Slovakia (what was then the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary).

B

Loved the image of that lone French sailor defending his beached ship. Reminds me of the battle scene from Beau Geste, where Gary Cooper is posing the dead soldiers to make it look like his fort is still occupied (I can’t find a clip to post here…apparently this movie is more obscure than I realized)

Pierce

Hard to explain the melancholy I feel now that we are on the other side of the height of Napoleon’s power and might. I know the story, I know the major beats, but I dread them nonetheless. Reminds me of how I felt listening to The History of Rome post-“Five Good Emperors”, except its worse because I think the French are the (more) righteous force in this narrative. Have you experienced a similar sentiment, Everett?

AnaR737

This came at the perfect moment when I really, really had to withdraw from current news, and I thank you so much for the respite. Episode extra on Cochrane's career?