1802. October... November... December... three months in which the longstanding contest between the British and the French switches from the battlefield to the negotiating table...

After two complete years in power Napoleon Bonaparte's position looks increasingly secure...

And the decision is taken to send a French fleet across the Atlantic with Saint-Domiongue's Toussaint Louverture in the firing line.

This is episode 40 of the Napoleonic Quarterly - covering three months in which the curtain falls on the French Wars of the French Revolution.

[16:52 ] - headline developments

[21:05 ] - Graeme Callister on peace negotiations between Britain and France

[41:30 ] - William Doyle on Bonaparte's first two years in power

[1:07:30 ] - Marlene Daut on the decision to send a fleet to Saint-Domingue

[1:20:52 ] - Season five closing comments from Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze