Episode Fourteen: The People's Army

The Age of Napoleon Podcast

Oct 28, 201736:25Society & Culture

Back on the mainland, 1792 saw the revolution face an existential crisis, which gave birth to a new new kind of army. Topics include Count Guibert and his theory of the citizen-soldier, the Battle of Valmy, and the found...

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