Episode 47: Q3-1803 - Enter Wellesley
Update: 2025-07-12
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1803. July… August… September… Three months in which the Maratha forces are defeated by Arthur Wellesley at Assaye… Hanover becomes the latest victim to Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces… And there’s another attempted uprising in Ireland. This is episode 47 of the Napoleonic Quarterly - covering three months in which the British and their sepoys take another step towards Empire on the Indian subcontinent.
[07:08 ] - Headline developments
[20:17 ] - Michael Rowe on the French invasion of Hanover
[39:45 ] - Ravindra Rathee on the end of the Second Anglo-Maratha War
[1:01:00 ] - Ciaran McDonnell on Emmet’s uprising
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