Hanging with History Harald Hansen

Only 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 their relatively recent conversion from Calvinism. We have the the flight to Varrenes, Louis XVI’s failed escape attempt, which leads to the Champ De Mars massacre. We have the Pillnitz Declaration, leading to the war with Austria and Prussia, the Prussian invasion leads to the August 10 coup d’...

Only 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 their relatively recent conversion from Calvinism. We have the the flight to Varrenes, Louis XVI’s failed escape attempt, which leads to the Champ De Mars massacre. We have the Pillnitz Declaration, leading to the war with Austria and Prussia, the Prussian invasion along with the Brunswick Manif...

The 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 first and 2nd estates were a really good idea. The establishment of the departments, also sensible, a reform that has lasted to the present day. But we’ve also got craziness, a captive king, who really can’t do his job in any idea of a mixed constitution of shared power. Growing radica...

The 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 most public way possible. And the vast majority of the British public responds with joy, also in a very public way. Everyone knows that everyone knows. We explore the madness of George III, his recovery and the nation’s reactions. There are anecdotes followed by an analysis of 3 qu...

The 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 the diplomatic part of the crisis and its resolution in Britain’s favor. Later the Revolutionary Wars distract Britain from exploiting its victory here, to the great benefit of the infant United States.This features the two largest empires in the world, in geographic extent, Russia and Spain, tus...

The 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 powers; the United Kingdom, France and Prussia. This crisis and the Nootka Sound Crisis are examples of how Europe functioned at the great power level when France was in too much disarray to be effectively involved.