Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
1794 War of First Coalition, Pichegru Hero of the Revolution
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 157
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1794 from the Pyrenees fronts, with massacres of Basque villagers to the Battle of the Black Mountain.
The Italian front has Napoleon, as a mere artillery general, plan a maneuver to get the Piedmontese out of their Alpine fortifications, Massena executes it successfully.
The Rhine front sees the French struggle with the river crossing and when they do cross the Austrians defeat them.
This year reveals the way the Revolution destroyed the human capital of the Royal French Army, and how it improved subsequently. The artillery lost the least, the infantry was getting better after the massive recruitment in the Levee En Masse, the cavalry though, still had a ways to go.