Hanging with History
A History podcast featuring Harald Hansen
Hanging with History
Episodes
Episodes of Hanging
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You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. You get a cumulative effect of seemingly slow British progress, that in the e
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe 1797 mutinies went hand in hand with financial crisis. This was the most dangerous period for Britain and the miracle during the French Revolutionary Wars.The Royal Navy spent most of
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe new French and Spanish alliance is ascendant in the Mediterranean. The strategic move the Spanish make is more dictated by the royal revenue requirements and political strategy rathe
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe cover some of the heroic events that increased pride and self confidence of the Royal Navy: Pellew's defeat of a 74 with 2 frigates and Cornwallis' Retreat. We also have Richery's exp
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis looks at the Glorious First of June campaign, covering all the engagements with extra attention to the 1st of June Was it a French strategic victory or was the Royal Navy the winner
You can send me a text if you have a comment or question1793 is a year of opportunities thrown away. The allies dominate the poorly disciplined French army, but waste the summer in pointless sieges, even after the road to France is wide open.
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis covers the first year of the War of the First Coalition, which ends with the "homicidal philanthropy of France."Brunswick's invasion, the battle of Valmy, the battle of Jemappes, Dumo
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Priestly Riots, also known as the Birmingham Riots, were part of the Church and King riots, that were part of the disgust reaction against French inspired radicals in Britain.The four
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe French Revolution was the most exciting thing to ever happen for some radical intellectuals. But gradually the murderyness, the chaos, mob rule and savage cruelty began to turn people
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe close the French Revolution at the Thermidorean Reaction and the execution of Robespierre. We treat the conspiracy to overthrow Robespierre as a self fulfilling prophecy. Once you kno
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionOnly 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the Pope. The Vendee is extra religious because of the
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionOnly 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the Pope. The Vendee is extra religious because of the
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe first year of the French Revolution the way it is conventionally dated from the fall of the Bastille. We have had bloody violence and sensible reforms, the loss of privileges for the
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Regency Crisis shines a light British Resiliency during the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. We end up in a situation where a spiritual testing of the king occurs in the mo
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Nootka Sound Crisis of 1790 has a confrontation of 4 powers in the Pacific Northwest; Britain, Spain, Russia and America. This is profoundly affected by the French Revolution, both in
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Dutch Crisis of 1787, was said by Napoleon to have caused the Revolution of 1789. We cover Dutch history through the 1780’s and its effects on the infant United States and three great
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionSpycraft was one of Britain’s advantages during the 2nd hundred years war.What were the other advantages Britain took into the end of the 2nd hundred years war? Pitt hired a number of ref
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWilliam Pitt goes toe to toe against a large coalition led by Charles Fox and Lord North. George 3 is on firmly on his side, all the power of the crown is bent to his support. And yet th
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionA summary of the 1793-1815 period is provided along with brief descriptions of the themes we will be following.Intensity:WW1 level financial and human commitmentThere are many wars inside
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionNewtonian philosophy, and John Locke, along with Francis Bacon has an exciting empirical philosophical package that took Europe by storm in the 1740s, with the able assistance of Voltaire.
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe last universal genius. There are minutes spent just lightly covering Leibniz’s contributions to science and his place in history, they are so extensive. He is put forward as the fath
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionSpinoza’s conflicts with contemporary scientists like Boyle and Huygens center on Spinoza’s insistence on the primacy of philosophical reason over empirical experimentation and empirical r
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionSpinoza’s philosophical framework laid out, along with several points of disagreement with the moderate Enlightenment Newtonians and Leibnizians. We get to some of Spinoza’s specific argu
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe look at the tragedies of Spinoza's life. The clique that forms around him. The tragi comic end of his friend and mentor Van Den Enden.Primarily we cover Spinoza's views, and here we i
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe first of a six episode arc on the Early Enlightenment. We emphasize the clash of ideas, then the content of ideas, then biography.This episode lays out the 3 way battle for the domina
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