Young Napoleon: Teenage Revolutionary (TRIH eps 382-383)
1769–1793 · Resource
A two-part series on the young Napoleon Bonaparte: his Corsican origins and youth, then his rise from Corsican outsider to French commander, via Toulon, the 'whiff of grapeshot' in Paris and command of the Army of Italy.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1769
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)