The Most Monstrous of Wars: The Napoleonic Guerrilla War in Southern Italy, 1806-1811.

Hatley, Paul B.; Finley, Milton; Tone, John Lawrence

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“…First, Marshal André Masséna The Return of Siege: The Revolutionary-Napoleonic Wars took four months to besiege and capture the coastal fortress of Gaeta (4 March-18 July 1806). 120 From late 1806, the French then besieged Amantea in southern Calabria, which capitulated on 7 February 1807; 121 and the following February, the French captured the fortress of Scilla on the Strait of Messina, the small British garrison forced to evacuate after eight days of cannon fire had ruined the defences. 122 In Central and Eastern Europe, siege operations came in two main phases during the Napoleonic Wars, the first during the French conquests of 1806-07, and the second in the aftermath of the retreat from Russia and during the collapse of the French Empire in 1813-14.…”

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Storm and Sack

Daly¹

2022

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During the Peninsular War, Wellington's army stormed and sacked three French-held Spanish towns: Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), Badajoz (1812) and San Sebastian (1813). 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. 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. He focuses on siege rituals and laws of war, and uncovering the cultural and emotional history of the storm and sack of towns. This book challenges conventional understandings of the place and nature of sieges in the Napoleonic Wars. It encourages a rethinking of the notorious reputations of the British sacks of this period and their place within the long-term history of customary laws of war and siege violence. Daly reveals a multifaceted story not only of rage, enmity, plunder and atrocity but also of mercy, honour, humanity and moral outrage.

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Storm and Sack

Daly¹

2022

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1821: The end of New Spain, dreams of an impossible Mexico

Tutino¹

2021

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From 1808 to 1821, New Spain lived a revolution that transformed everything: the regime, the silver economy, social relations, political and religious cultures. This work explores the power, wealth, stability, and global importance of New Spain before 1810, the roots of the revolution breaking the regime in 1808, the social predations provoking the popular insurgencies of 1810 to 1820, and how the intersection of political and social conflicts that endured for a decade forever changed New Spain and the world making the dream of a Mexican empire, and the republican dreams that followed in search of a Mexican nation, impossible.

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The Most Monstrous of Wars: The Napoleonic Guerrilla War in Southern Italy, 1806-1811.

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1821: The end of New Spain, dreams of an impossible Mexico

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