Episode 11: Q3-1794 - Robespierre removed

Help us produce more episodes by supporting the Napoleonic Quarterly on Patreon: patreon.com/napoleonicquarterly 1794. July. August. September. Three months in which Maximilien Robespierre appears to sleepwalk his way to the guillotine... The British and the Austrians are going backwards fast in the Low Countries... And in the Mediterranean British forces finally wrest a useful prize from the French. This is episode 11 of the Napoleonic Quarterly – covering three months in which the Terror finally consumes its own. [08:50] - Marisa Linton on the Thermidorean reaction and Robespierre's grisly end. [21:30] - Garry Wills on Allied struggles as the Austrians check out of the Low Countries for good. [41:25] - Rachel Blackman-Rogers on the British capture of Corsica - and its implications for power politics in the Western Mediterranean. Plus Charles Esdaile and Alexander Mikaberidze contribute their usual commentary throughout.  There is a rogue rumble of thunder in this episode somewhere... see if you can spot it...