"What happened to Pouqueville’s Frenchmen? Ottoman ..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Sep 2015 12:20 p.m. PST |
… treatment of the French prisoners during the War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802). "This essay is about the Ottoman treatment of war prisoners at the end of the eighteenth century. It questions the common assumption of Ottoman fanaticism and ignorance of European military norms in the treatment of captives. Pouqueville's memoirs of captivity played a crucial role in the emergence of this view, but a comparison of his testimony and Ottoman documents shows that there is a discrepancy between the two accounts. While there were many differences in practice, the Ottomans shared a legalistic view of the treatment of war prisoners, based on the concept of reciprocity" See here
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| ataulfo | 02 Sep 2015 12:25 p.m. PST |
sorry tango:
Always the same:
Michael Taussig in: Fieldwork Notebooksmarchofthetitans.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SA-Camps.jpg |
| Tango01 | 02 Sep 2015 12:27 p.m. PST |
Don't understand what you are saying my friend. You don't get the link? Amicalement
Armand |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
