Episode 38: Q2-1801 - Nelson's blind eye

The Napoleonic Quarterly - A podcast by Quartermaster Productions

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1801. April... May... June... Three months in which Horatio Nelson pulverises the Danish fleet at Copenhagen... Napoleon Bonaparte turns his ire on the pro-British Portuguese... and war breaks out between the piratical Barbary States and the fledgeling US of A. This is episode 38 of the Napoleonic Quarterly - covering three months which show that, despite the wider drift towards a French-dominated peace, there is still plenty of scope for conflict. 09:26 - Mark Lawrence on the War of the Oranges between Portugal and Spain 31:17 - Liam Gauci on Tripoli's declaration of war against the United States 1:00:55 - Rachel Blackman-Rogers on the Battle of Copenhagen