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Napoleon in Italy Part 5: Battle of Rivoli

Islam's 'Golden Age': Fall of the Abbasids

Napoleon in Italy Part 4: Battle of Arcole

Islam's 'Golden Age': Rise of the Abbasids

The scandalous 'Secret History' of Procopius

The greatest defensive campaign in history?

Belisarius fights his way up the Tiber to save Rome

Napoleon loses Paris

Belisarius saves Rome from destruction

Gunnery tactics in the Age of Sail

The first plague pandemic reaches Constantinople

The bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars

Procopius records the world's first plague pandemic

How one Corporal's mistake cost Napoleon 30,000 men

How to reload a naval cannon

Napoleon's last chance for peace?

Roman historian Procopius records evil omens...

How to sail a Napoleonic warship against the wind

Napoleon in Italy Part 3: Battle of Bassano

The staggering scale of Napoleon's losses in Russia

The Oracle of Delphi warns the Athenians

Belisarius arrests the Pope

What were the British Navy's 'press gangs'?

Was this the decision that cost Napoleon his empire?

The assassination of Theoderic the Great's daughter

What were Nelson's quarters like on HMS Victory?

World's greatest castles

The disastrous cost of Napoleon's invasion of Spain

The Last Roman Triumph

Legacy of the 1848 Revolutions

How did commanders communicate with troops in WW1?

26 miles of rigging on a ship-of-the-line - what did it do?

Napoleon's first major defeat

What is a castle keep?

How did the Eastern Romans reorganise imperial defence?

Origin of the world-famous 'Radetzky March'

Know your masts! Quick guide to every mast on a ship-of-the-line

St.Petersburg 1825 - the Decembrist Revolt

What was Napoleon's 'Continental System'?

Guide to an Ancient Greek warship

The Nika Riots - 532 AD

How many men does it take to crew a Napoleonic warship?

Napoleon's deadly plan at Austerlitz

Castle gatehouses - the medieval 'kill zone'

Napoleon urges his men across the bridge at Lodi

How did the Eastern Romans punish a traitor?

Napoleon in Italy Part 2: Battle of Castiglione

Russia's First Revolutionaries: The Decembrists ALL PARTS
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