This Week: Napoleon, Thirteen Days, The Patriot, The Last Duel

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BOATS THIS WEEK (OCT 14-20, 2024) — This Wednesday is the anniversary of Marie Antoinette's execution in 1793 that we saw inn the opening sequence of Ridley Scott's Napoleon (2023). After that, we'll travel exactly 169 years from 1793 to 1962, because Wednesday is also depicted in Thirteen Days (2000) as it's showing the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis. For our final historical event from the movies this week, we'll hop to October 19th, 1781 as it's shown in The Patriot (2000) to see how it shows the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.

After learning about this week's birthdays from historical figures in the movies, we'll wrap up this episode by comparing history with another of Ridley Scott's movies, The Last Duel, which released in the U.S. on October 15th, 2021. Finally, we'll get a little behind the scenes update about BOATS This Week episodes for the remainder of 2024.

Until next time, here's where you can continue the story.

Events from this week in history

• Wednesday: Napoleon (2023) | BOATS Napoleon Miniseries
• Wednesday: Thirteen Days (2000)
• Saturday: The Patriot (2000) | BOATS #60

Birthdays from this week in history

• Monday: Dwight D. Eisenhower in The Longest Day (1962)
• Wednesday: Oscar Wilde in Wilde (1997)
• Sunday: Mickey Mantle in 61* (2001)

Historical movies releasing this week in history

• Tuesday: The Last Duel (2021)

Mentioned in this episode

• JFK's October 22nd, 1962 speech
• Cuban Missile Crisis timeline
• Eric Jager's book that they based The Last Duel on
• Eric Jager's article
• Modern-day photos of Saint-Martin-des-Champs

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