Storm and Sack: British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815 Daly Gavin
Storm and Sack: British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815 Daly Gavin During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish…
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Storm and Sack: British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815 Daly Gavin
During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). Using soldiers' letters, diaries and memoirs, Gavin Daly compares and contrasts military practices and attitudes across British sieges spanning three continents, from the Peninsular War in Spain, to India and South America. Storm and Sack is the first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in the siege warfare of the Napoleonic era.
This book challenges conventional understandings of the place and nature of sieges in the Napoleonic Wars. He focuses on siege rituals and laws of war, and uncovering the cultural and emotional history of the storm and sack of towns. It encourages a rethinking of the notorious reputations of the British sacks of this period, and their place