Special thanks to Peter (History Shorts), Roberto (History of Saqartvelo Georgia/Tsar Power), and Chris & Åsa (Flatpack History of Sweden) for providing the opening quotes for this episode, and thanks to Christian of Your Podcast Pal for his audio editing work on this episode!
The transcript for this episode can be found here.
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Featured Image: "The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814" by Amédée Forestier [c. 1914], courtesy of Wikipedia
Intro and Outro Music: "Hull's Victory," as performed by David and Ginger Hildebrand, courtesy of the Colonial Music Institute at George Washington's Mount Vernon
