Episode 23: Q3-1797 - Disaster at Tenerife

The Napoleonic Quarterly

1797. July… August… September… Three months in which the French military steps in to protect the republic against its voters... Horatio Nelson loses his right arm in a disastrous failure for the Royal Navy… And the arch-manipulator Talleyrand becomes France’s latest foreign minister. This is episode 23 of the Napoleonic Quarterly – covering three months in which the French Revolution sells out – again.

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[14:02] - Ruth Scurr on the Fructidor coup

[32:52] - Rachel Blackman-Rogers on Nelson's Tenerife disaster

[51:30] - Biancamaria Fontana on Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

Featuring Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze pondering the likelihood of a French descent on Egypt in the intro and their assessment of the state of play in the episode's final ten minutes.