The Age of Napoleon Podcast
Everett Rummage
The Age of Napoleon is a history podcast about the life and career of Napoleon Bonaparte as well as the general context of Europe between the early eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
- 36 minutes 43 secondsPrix Napoléon Special Episode
We interview David Serero of the Festival Napoléon and get a special message from Will Clark of Grey History.
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16 January 2026, 2:56 am - 1 hour 2 minutesEpisode 133: Long Live America
News of the Abdications of Bayonne shook Spanish colonial societies to their foundations. Within a few years, the nations of South and Central America would be on the road to independence.
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1 January 2026, 3:51 am - 1 hour 5 minutesEpisode 132: The Old Master
We examine Spanish America on the eve of the Wars of Independence.
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1 December 2025, 5:31 am - 1 hour 2 minutesEpisode 131: The Sacrifice
Josephine was the great love of Napoleon's life, but in late 1809, he had their marriage annulled -- how had it come to this?
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1 November 2025, 6:02 am - 56 minutes 18 secondsEpisode 130: The Heart of the Empire
We examine Napoleon's private life, with a special focus on the most important person in it: the charming and controversial Empress of the French, Josephine.
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1 October 2025, 4:13 am - 1 hour 7 minutesEpisode 129: I Am Charlemagne
In the summer of 1809, General Sir Arthur Wellesley led a small British army into Spain. While the war raged on, Napoleon was also picking a political fight with a powerful enemy: the Roman Catholic Church.
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1 September 2025, 4:30 am - 1 hour 9 minutesEpisode 128: To Conquer a Throne
Iberia, 1809: the Aragonese capital of Zaragoza was under siege once again. To the west, the French prepared another invasion of Portugal. Meanwhile, in London, the British leadership debated a renewed commitment in this theater of the war.
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1 August 2025, 1:10 am - 1 hour 6 minutesEpisode 127: The Liberators
Throughout 1809, small groups of brave (or foolish) German patriots tried to stir up nationalist uprisings against France. Meanwhile, in Iberia, a very ugly war dragged on with no end in sight.
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1 July 2025, 4:01 am - 1 hour 7 minutesEpisode 126: Martyrs and Scapegoats
Late 1809: Napoleon negotiated a punitive peace treaty with Austria and survived a strange assassination attempt. Meanwhile, the British launched a surprise invasion of the continent and dealt with political controversies at home.
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1 June 2025, 4:21 am - 1 hour 1 minuteEpisode 125: An Age Forlorn
After his victory at Wagram, Napoleon pursued the Austrians. Peace was in the air, but the war would end on an almost unbelievably dramatic note in the middle of a Bohemian thunderstorm.
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1 May 2025, 1:01 am - 1 hour 15 minutesEpisode 124: My Blood for the Emperor
In the summer of 1809, Napoleon crossed the Danube again to confront Archduke Charles and the Habsburg field army and avenge his defeat at Aspern-Essling.
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