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Tango01  | 21 Jan 2019 8:01 p.m. PST |
…. views of Spanish and Portuguese violence during the Peninsular War, 1808–1814. "This article explores British soldiers' reactions to the violence that Iberian soldiers, guerrillas and civilians perpetrated against wounded French soldiers and prisoners of war during the Peninsular War. Whilst they saw this violence as retaliatory, and sympathized with the suffering of the occupied, British soldiers were shocked, disturbed and outraged, often leading them to self-identify with their very enemy — the French. On one level, this violence was seen as a fundamental violation of customary rules of war. Yet further, in British minds it revealed a deeper Iberian culture of violence and way of war, which set the Iberian peoples apart from ‘civilized' nations."
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| ConnaughtRanger | 21 Jan 2019 11:13 p.m. PST |
Isn't there a previous thread on this one? |
| Silurian | 22 Jan 2019 6:33 a.m. PST |
Um,that's it? $42 USD to read any more? Many of your tidbits are interesting Tango, but this was rather a pointless random snippet. |
| Tango01 | 22 Jan 2019 10:51 a.m. PST |
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