Episode 49: Q1-1804 - Conspiracists and conspirators
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1804. January… February… March… Three months in which Napoleon acts ruthlessly by abducting and killing a royalist figurehead... Both Haiti and Louisiana face momentous questions about their future... And in the forested, rugged terrain of the Balkans, a figure called Karadjordje rises to challenge the Ottomans. This is episode 49 of the Napoleonic Quarterly - covering three months in which the murderous shedding of more royal blood sends shockwaves across Europe.
[15:18 ] - Headline developments
[34:30 ] - Peter Kastor on the Louisiana Purchase and Haiti
[58:50 ] - Alan Forrest on the Cadoudal plot, the abduction of the Duc D'Enghien and the conspiracists mindset
[1:19:20 ] - Michael Talbot on Karadjordje and the Serbian uprising
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