For most of history, kings and generals didn’t sit back and direct troop movements from afar—they fought on the front lines with their men. A thread on courageous leaders who fought alongside their troops🧵

Bernadotte. Victor. Suchet. Murat. Who was the better marshal? Vote in Heat 4 of the Napoleonic Wars Pod 'Battle of the Marshals', and hear the pitches from Alexander Mikaberidze Generals and Napoleon Antoni Gumbau, #Histocast Squire 🌓🇲🇹🤺 & Dr Christopher Kimbell in the episode (see reply to this post.

Shout-out to author David Buttery david buttery for sending me a few books from his impressive catalog of published works. If my brilliant audience has read any of these books, please give David a positive review on Amazon. Thank you!! 🙏🏻 #napoleonic #authors

On this day in 1773 Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville was born. Lorville went on to become a Général de Brigade in the French army. He served with distinction throughout the Napoleonic Wars, but is perhaps best remembered for his command of the dragoons of the Imperial Guard.

The storming of San Sebastian took place #OnThisDay 31 August 1813. Thomas Graham's forces of British & Portuguese troops ran from trenches & into the breach. It led to the Peninsular War reaching the Pyrenees & France. The city was sacked despite officer's attempts to stop it.

New episode! Spain, 1808: the Spanish Patriots prepared to hold off Bonaparte in a rocky mountain pass, but they didn't count on the heroism of the Polish cavalry of Napoleon's Imperial Guard. podtrac.com/pts/redirect.m…

Got another great episode uploaded to our YT page featuring Josh Provan Historyland. - please give it a listen. 🎧 youtu.be/3FTy47EQNJo?si… #napoleon #platov #russia #cossacks #yt #history

Coming soon.....the 2 Battles of Copenhagen. #napoleon #denmark #britishnavy #copenhagen #battles #history

The most beautiful keyhole in the world is in Rome A magical peephole in the green door of the Knights of Malta Priory on the Aventine Hill reveals nothing less than St. Peter’s Basilica, offering a perspective of the dome framed by a row of aligned trees

A challenge for our wonderful audience - we haven’t received a review on Apple Podcasts since April 2024. Apple is one of our biggest listening platforms and thus we would greatly appreciate any and all reviews. 👍 👎 As always, we love 💗 our listeners and supporters‼️

Our most recent episode covers this battle. #copenhagen

Yesterday we rounded off the first day of the conference with our Charity's AGM. During this event we offered our sincere thanks to our outgoing chair Dr Zack White and bind a very warm welcome to our new chair Dr Graeme Callister! Looking forward to our programme of events today!