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Episode 78: Free Haiti

The Age of Napoleon Podcast

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Napoleon Bonaparte's New Government

As the War of the Knives was winding down, a ship arrived from France carrying momentous news. The old directory had been overthrown by a cabal of authoritarian centrist republicans led by the IBA-CES. In practice, the leading figure in the new government was an ambitious young general named Napoleon Bonaparte. As he consolidated control over the government, Bonaparte began to signal a shift in colonial policy.

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