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The Origin Of Napoleon’s Hat 29 May 2013 | 04:19 am
I was reading about Frederick The Great of Prussia last night when I came across this picture. I thought… hmmmm… that hat looks familiar! Napoleon apparently adopted the hat from Frederick The Gr...
TIL Napoleon Invented The Idéologues 16 May 2013 | 02:16 am
Today I learned something new about Napoleon. Apparently he was the first person to use the term “idéologue” pejoratively to describe his opponents – the French politically liberal intellectuals such...
Napoleon the Waterloo Campaign 4th Edition 16 Apr 2013 | 02:16 am
Napoleon The Waterloo Campaign 4th Edition is the latest version of the classic boardgame – was a Kickstarter campaign that was fully (in fact, over-)funded about 18 hours ago. Congrats to Tom Dalglie...
The Secret Plot to Rescue Napoleon by Submarine 12 Mar 2013 | 02:28 am
One of Chrissy’s cousins just sent me this story in the Smithsonian Magazine that tells the story of how one man claimed he had plans to rescue Napoleon from St Helena… WITH A SUBMARINE. I’ve never h...
Markham & Reilly – The Next Chapter? 23 Jan 2013 | 08:37 am
Well I spoke to JDM for the first time in a long time yesterday and we discussed doing a new podcast – about American politics. JDM was ranting about Obama’s inauguration and ending filibuster on Face...
Was Typhus Responsible For Napoleon’s 1812 Defeat? 31 Dec 2012 | 04:21 am
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/pandemics/2012/12/napoleon_march_to_russia_in_1812_typhus_spread_by_lice_was_more_powerful.single.html According to author Stephan Talty, Napoleon’s G...
Coded Napoleon Kremlin Letter Sold 3 Dec 2012 | 05:31 am
“I will blow up the Kremlin on the 22nd at three in the morning.” So wrote Napoleon in this coded letter dated October 20, 1812 and sold at auction this week for 187,500 euros ($233,800). It had been...
Watch “WATERLOO” Online! 18 Sep 2012 | 03:19 am
Rod Steiger. Christopher Plummer. Orson Welles. Sergey Bondarchuk’s 1970 film WATERLOO may have flopped at the box office. It may have killed Stanley Kubrick’s chances of making his own Napoleon fi...
Markham On Russian TV! 10 Sep 2012 | 10:07 am
David shot me a link to this recent interview he did on Russian television about Napoleon! It runs for 24 minutes and explores whether Napoleon was a hero or a villan. As you’d expect, David laid out ...
1000 Likes = New Show! 16 Aug 2012 | 12:23 pm
Okay folks, to celebrate Napoleon’s birthday, I’m going to make you a promise – when the Napoleon Bonaparte Podcast Facebook page gets to 1000 likes, I...
