Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and <a href="https://a.co/d/0VsuVjd">No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One</a>,  joins the show to discuss how the British Empire maintained the balance in Europe between the fall of Napoleon to the summer of 1914.
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02:59 Studying the Problem of War
06:20 British Perspectives of the European Coast
11:33 The French Likelihood of Invading Britain 
21:40 The Scheldt River Estuary 
30:33 Marlborough, Wellington, and Eisenhower 
36:48 The 19th Century and the Rise of Steampower
47:35 Divided attention and British Mistakes of 1914
54:40 The Failure of British Strategic Off-Shore Balancing

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