
Episode 85: In the Hands of a Giant
The Age of Napoleon Podcast
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The Last Victim of Austerlitz
william pitt was a political titan, a man of vision with tremendous talents and boundless energy. Pitt saw that with his victory at austerlitz, napoleon had totally upset the balance of power in europe. The ailing prime minister estimated it would be ten years before the dust settled. He uttered those words nine years and six months before the battle of waterloo. Supposedly, his last words were, o my country. How i leave my country?
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