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We all know that during a flogging, especially when the punishment is over 300-lashes, the battalion was always ordered to be present, to witness the punishment.  The reason being of course was to discourage the onlookers to repeat the same crime.  I can also see another use for the battalion forming a square around the soldier, as the formation would reduce the risk of the prisoner believing he could run away.

However, being a former Guardsman and having done thousands of drills and pre-parades such as the rehearsals for the Trooping of the Colour, I find is easy to comprehend a Sergeant Major’s need for a maximum time spent on training the men to form squares against cavalry.   In the case of the Waterloo squares, the whole army was moved back 100-paces, and following so much mayhem while under fire from the enemy, it must have needed…

Tim Lockley joins me to unpick the story of Britain's 'slave regiments', and explain the important role that they played in the War of 1812.

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A very informative podcast where the topic is discussed from multiple angles, very interesting to listen to and to absorb all the information.

Chinese history is always fascinating. The Napoleonic era was no exception. Josh Provan opens our eyes to what was going on in China before, during and after the Napoleonic era, how the nation was on the cusp of sliding into anarchy, and why the British were busy being awful.

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In episode 150, Beatrice de Graaf joins me to discuss how Napoleon's police state operated, how unique it really was, and why terror lay at the heart of state control during this period.

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‎Show The Napoleonicist: The epic story of the Napoleonic Wars and the people behind them, Ep Napoleonic France: A State of Terror? - Oct 8, 2022

So Zack produced 150 episodes already, a quite staggering number and huge effort. Do I see Boney's regime as a state of terror? I see his state more like a police state where he perfected how to controll the press and public life and syping onto his own people even closest subordinates - percecting surveillance - and I cannot see any other state in europe where the control of their own people was devoted such huge enery and massive personal interest as in the case of Boney. His system served well as a blue print for police and terror states to…