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Episode 37: Masters of Our Fate

The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast

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The Importance of Napoleon's Repulsion

The English spent the 1790s worried about the poli-nudid, all this literature that pops up that is obsessed with invasion. We then fight him at Trafalgar, and we fight him at Waterloo. The French weren't worried whether the British were going to invade their country. Five of those seven are actually launched by the coalition against Napoleon. Only two, the peninsula campaign and the Russian campaign, both of which he lost, were launched by him. If I were a Martian, I wouldn't necessarily think that the... That this was the case.

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