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The Best Episodes of Real Time History Season 2022

Every episode of Real Time History Season 2022 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Real Time History Season 2022!

The Best Episodes of Real Time History Season 2022

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    #1 - French Ragtag Army's Desperate Winter Battles 1871

    S2022:E1

    One of the last bastions of French resistance in the new year 1871 is Belfort. A ragtag army called "Army of the East" rushes to free the city near the Swiss border. Meanwhile the Germans prepare to announce their Empire in Versailles.

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    #2 - Decision At The Burgundian Gate - The Battle of Belfort Gap

    S2022:E2

    In minus 20 degrees the rag tag French Armee L'Est still tries to relieve Belfort - which is under siege by the Baden Corps under General von Werder. Belforts resistance against the siege is later immortalized in the Lion of Belfort.

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    #3 - Why Wilhelm I Didn't Want To Be German Emperor

    S2022:E3

    The proclamation of the German Empire on 18 January 1871 is usually portraited as a glorious ceremony. Most people associated it with the famous paintings from Anton von Werner. But the ceremony itself was far from well organized and the soon-to-be Emperor Wilhlem I himself was not to thrilled about the whole affair.

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    #4 - German Soldiers March Through Paris - The End of the Franco-Prussian War

    S2022:E4

    The end of the Franco-Prussian War is marked by humiliation for France. German soldiers march into Paris and the French Army of the East under Bourbaki flees to neutral Switzerland to surrender there.

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    #5 - How the French Army Crushed the Socialist Paris Commune 1871 I GLORY & DEFEAT

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    The Siege of Paris and the end of the Franco-Prussian War had brought social unrest in Paris (and other French cities) to a boiling point. Radical citizens take up arms and proclaim La Commune, a self-organized alternative to the French Republic. But soon the French Army is cracking down and Paris experiences a Week of Blood.

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    #6 - Why Napoleon Invaded Russia in 1812

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    When Napoleon's Grande Armee crossed the Nemen river into the Russian Empire in 1812, the die had been cast. In the years between the peace of Tilsit and the war against Russia, Tsar Alexander I and Emperor Napoleon had praised each other and Russia had even joined the continental blockade of Napoleon's arch enemy Great Britain. Still, in 1811 both sides saw war as inevitable.

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    #7 - The Greatest Army Europe Had Ever Seen - Napoleon's Invasion of Russia 1812

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    When Napoleon marched his Grande Armée into Russia in 1812, he had assembled the biggest army in modern European history. Only half of his troops came from territories of the expanded French Empire. Tens of thousands of troops also came from Poland, Prussia, Austria, and the German States as well as Southern Europe.

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    #8 - Napoleon's First Defeat in Russia 1812 - Platov's Trap at Mir

    S2022:E8

    The Battle of Mir 1812 was the first battle of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Polish Uhlans ride right into a trap set by Platov's Cossacks and under the Russian summer sun a cavalry skirmish ensues.

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    #9 - All-Out War Against Napoleon - The Grand Manifesto of Alexander I

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    In the beginning of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the Russian Tsar Alexander I was under pressure to rally his people. A months into the campaign he declared the The Patriotic War (Отечественная война) to fight back Napoleon - who was already having serious supply issues and a deteriorating logistics network.

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    #10 - Russia's Fighting Retreat 1812 - Battles of Mogilev and Vitebsk

    S2022:E10

    The two Russian Western Armies are trying to join up to mount a defense against Napoleon's invasion of Russia. But the speed of the French advance, particularly Marshal Davout and Marshal Murat, are putting pressure on the Russians. And so late July sees a series of battles at Mogilev/Saltanovka and Vitebsk/Ostrovno. Meanwhile the Russian 3rd Observation Army is dangerously close to the border of the Duchy of Warsaw - the Austrians under Schwarzenberg and Reynier's Corps need to stand and fight around Kobryn.

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    #11 - Napoleon Conquers A Heap of Ashes - Battle of Smolensk 1812

    S2022:E11

    Smolensk is an important symbolic city to the Russians in 1812, for Napoleon it's a strategic objective he wants to conquer to improve is deteriorating supply situation. The Battle of Smolensk leads to an inferno in the city, it gets virtually destroyed and nearly all residents flee.

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    #12 - Russian Army Saved by French Blunder - The Battle of Lubino 1812

    S2022:E12

    French general Junot and Emperor Napoleon I had a bit of a history by the time of the 1812 campaign. Even though Junot has been in Napoleon's service for years, he hadn't been promoted to Marshal. At the Battle of Lubino (Battle of Valutino-Gora) Junot stands idly by as the Grande Armee is missing their best chance yet to win a decisive victory over the Russians. To the north, at Polotsk the French and Russians are also clashing.

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    #13 - How Russian Partisans Waged Guerilla War Against Napoleon

    S2022:E13

    he face of war was changing in 1812. While the Russian Army retreated and left behind scorched earth, Russian partisans took up arms against Napoleon's troops. They harassed and attacked vital supply lines and we a true menace to the Grande Armée's rear.

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    #14 - Setting the Stage for Borodino - The Battle of Shevardino Redoubt

    S2022:E14

    Napoleon's advancing army had finally spotted the entire Russian Army before them, the stage was set for the deciding clash of the Russian campaign at the small village of Borodino. Before the armies could duke it out, Napoleon wanted to eliminate a forward defensive position on the Russian left flank: The Shevardino Redoubt.

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    #15 - Napoleon's Deadliest Day - Battle of Borodino 1812 (Napoleonic Wars Documentary)

    S2022:E15

    The Battle of Borodino was the deadliest single day in history until the outbreak of the First World War. It was the culmination of Napoleon's advance on Moscow. Due to the terrain and the Russian positions, it was a gigantic battle of attrition - which Napoleon won at a high cost.

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    #16 - Napoleon Took Moscow - Why He Didn't Win The War

    S2022:E16

    After the Battle of Borodino, both sides are badly mauled. Napoleon's Army marches on and reaches Moscow, the old Russian capital. In the Emperor's eyes, capturing the city should win him the war. But while the local Russians set fire to the city, the Tsar in St. Petersburg and the Russian Army command are thinking about turning the tide of the war - and not about accepting a French victory.

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    #17 - How Napoleon's Russia Campaign Collapsed

    S2022:E17

    When Napoleon took Moscow, he expected victory over Russia was just a matter of time. But six weeks later he has to flee the city as his entire Russia campaign collapses. The strengthened Russian Army is attacking from three sides, winter is coming and in far away Paris a coup is underway.

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    #18 - Napoleon's Great Escape from Russia - The Battle of the Berezina

    S2022:E18

    Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and from Russia as a whole is one of the most dramatic scenes in history. Starving and freezing, the French Grande Armee is desperately trying to reach the Berezina River. The revitalized Russian Army is on their heels and almost catches their prey in the 2nd Battle of Krasny. But it wasn't just "General Winter" that defeated Napoleon in Russia.

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    #19 - Prussia's Rise & Denmark's Decline: The Schleswig Wars 1848-1864

    S2022:E19

    The two Schleswig Wars of 1848-51 and 1864 mark an important period in European History. Intertwined with the 1848 revolutions, the First Schleswig War's settlement tries to uphold the European status quo. But the unhappy belligerents soon find themselves at war again in 1864 when Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck uses the Second Schleswig War as a first step towards German unification.

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    #20 - The War That Made Germany Prussian - Austro-Prussian War 1866

    S2022:E20

    After settling the Schleswig-Holstein question in 1864, Austria and Prussia are uneasy allies. Both are the biggest players in the German confederation. In Bismarck's dream of a united Germany, he sees Prussia as the only leader and wants to force the so called "small German solution" without Austria. And so, in 1866 a war between Austria and Prussia (plus other German states like Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg, Saxony, Hanover) breaks out to settle this question once and for all.

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    #22 - Why Germany Lost the Battle of the Bulge

    S2022:E22

    The Battle of the Bulge was one of the last German offensives during the Second World War. It caught the US Army off guard in the Ardennes sector but ultimately the Allies prevailed. But did Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ('Operation Watch on the Rhine') ever have a chance to succeed and reach Antwerp?

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    #23 - Biggest US Battle in the Pacific: Okinawa 1945

    S2022:E23

    The American invasion of Okinawa was the last big island operation on the Pacific Front. It took the US Marines and Army troops several months to defeat the last Japanese resistance on the island in one of the costliest American victories of the 2nd World War - but in the end not even Japanese Kamikaze attacks and using the civilian population could avert the outcome.

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    #24 - Napoleon's Downfall: Prussia's Betrayal in Spring 1813

    S2022:E24

    After Napoleon's defeat in Russia in 1812, the situation on the European continent is rapidly shifting. Prussia and Austria are leaving their unhappy alliance with the French. Prussian general Yorck even pledges his support to the Russian Army which is on the move towards Berlin. In Lützen and Bautzen Napoleon still manages to beat the new coalition, but his losses from Russia put him on the backfoot.

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Season 2022 Ratings Summary

"French Ragtag Army's Desperate Winter Battles 1871" is the best rated episode of "Real Time History" season 2022. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/6/2022. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Decision At The Burgundian Gate - The Battle of Belfort Gap".