In this podcast Professor Charles Esdaile of the Unversity of Liverpool examines the styles and impact of Napoleon and Wellington on their respective armies and their roles in the Napoleonic wars.

1. Was Napoleon a military genius?
2. How dominant was the French Army?
3. How was Napoleon’s empire controlled?
4. Wellington & Napoleon differing styles.
5. What was the significance of the Peninsula War?
6. Reforming the British Army.
7. How informed were the British people about the Napoleonic wars?
8. Propaganda in Britain.
9. Could the Battle of Waterloo have gone a different way? What would that have meant?
10. Britain’s reputation after the Napoleonic wars.

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