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On this date in 1796, a French republican army under General Lazare Hoche left the port of Brest bound for Ireland. There were many exiled Irish revolutionaries in its ranks, including the famous Theobald Wolfe Tone. It would be foiled by bad weather and the Royal Navy.

Today in 1805: a British fleet under Lord Horatio Nelson decisively defeated a combined Franco-Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar near Cádiz, Spain. Nearly 5,000 men lost their lives, including Nelson. British control of the seas was secured for the rest of the Napoleonic Wars.

On this day in 1799, André Masséna won one of his greatest victories at the Second Battle of Zürich, defeating a combined Austro-Russian army and shattering the Coalition offensive into Switzerland.

The 3rd Hussars made several significant charges at Elchingen alongside the 10th Regiment of Chasseurs à Cheval, who are depicted here by the artist Alphonse Lalauze, escorting Austrian prisoners in the aftermath of the battle.

Uniforms of the 3rd Hussar Regiment of the French army, circa-1805. This unit performed brilliantly at the Battle of Elchingen, which we will be talking about next episode.

Next episode I get to talk about one of my favorite Napoleonic characters: General Karl Mack von Leiberich, a man who turned incompetence into a form of art

On this date in 1791, a slave rebellion broke out on the sugar plantations of the fertile northern plain of French Saint-Domingue, setting off a remarkable chain of events that would culminate in the declaration of the independent Republic of Haiti more than 12 years later.

Uniforms of Napoleon's Imperial Guard, by Richard Knötel

Today I'm thinking about Jacques-Louis David. What does it mean to be both a great artist and a propagandist? What was it like for him to balance the demands of his craft and the demands of politics?

'Schill's Death in Stralsund' by Richard Knötel. Ferdinand von Schill was a major in the Prussian army who led an ill-fated anti-French uprising in 1809. In the 19th century, he was widely regarded as one of the great German national heroes.