"‘The sacking of a town is an abomination’: siege, sack..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Nov 2020 9:38 p.m. PST |
…. and violence to civilians in British officers' writings on the Peninsular War – the case of Badajoz "For all its notoriety, the 1812 British sack of Badajoz during the Peninsular War has been surprisingly overlooked as a subject of historical investigation, symptomatic of a broader neglect of European sieges and sacks for this period. This article explores British officers' reactions to the sack through their letters and memoirs. It suggests rethinking Badajoz as a site not only of excess and atrocity, but also one of constraint, outrage, shame and censure. In so doing, it investigates sieges as an important place for examining changes and continuities in customary laws of war, cultures of war, and moral, humanitarian and sentimental discourses over the long eighteenth century…"
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| Gazzola | 10 Nov 2020 7:20 a.m. PST |
Er, Armand, you do realise you will charged with hating Britain for that post? LOL |
| Lilian | 10 Nov 2020 10:15 a.m. PST |
TMP or The déjà-vu-Multirecycling-Posts forum, that is the 4th thread opened about the same topic, one by semester
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| Tango01 | 10 Nov 2020 12:26 p.m. PST |
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| saltflats1929 | 10 Nov 2020 10:07 p.m. PST |
I think the Argentines and Britain have disagreed before. |
| Tango01 | 10 Nov 2020 10:10 p.m. PST |
A little…. (smile) Amicalement
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paints brigs for the British fleet.