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Episode Sixteen: Into the Storm

The Age of Napoleon Podcast

Dec 1, 201738:45Society & Culture

SURVEY: Napoleon returns to Corsica. The former king is executed; royalists rise up to avenge him. Napoleon fights in his first (real) battle. Paoli breaks with the Bonapartes and with France. Napoleon and his family fle...

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