"The Atomic Bombings of Britain during the Napoleonic" Topic

… War (1803)

Ha!…

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Armand

Never trust the Frogs!

Don't worry lads, God's an Englishman and will change the wind to blow these infernal devices back to where they came from.

There is a lot of myth and fantasy surrounding thus event and, sadly, the role of dragons in the war is almost universally ignored.

When we know that Napoleon was very reluctant to employ a new weapon such as the submarine against Perfidious Albion, considered as a disloyal weapon and contrary to the rules of honour, we should perhaps not forget that the industrial-scale killing of millions of civilians, as well as the deaths of millions of soldiers on the battlefields, are specific features of the supposedly highly evolved, modern and advanced 20th century…
I do not see any Napoleonic policy that consisted of deliberately bombing London civilians, if not the Royal Navy and British garrisons,
anachronistic historical nonsense for this period

funny, taking in account the usual sense of moral and ethical superiority that people in the 20th and 21st centuries feel toward past generations…

(smile)

Armand

Lilian, you're right that industrial scale crimes against humanity weren't committed in the period – chiefly perhaps because it was only a brief way into industrial *anything* – but Napoleon was more than willing to kill civilians (most famously the 'whiff of grapeshot', but also at the siege of Acre and of course throughout the Peninsular) and prisoners of war (after the capture of Jaffa). Let's not pretend it was an age of chivalry and honour and gentlemanly conduct.

" Let's not pretend it was an age of chivalry and honour and gentlemanly conduct…"

Of course not… as in most wars (even today… look at Russia)… and at that time you can ask Spanish civilians how they fared in the British military sites… especially after taking the place.

Armand