Gavin Daly (University of Tasmania)

Storm and Sack

British Sieges, Violence and the Laws of War in the Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815

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Produktbeschreibung

The first major study of British soldiers' violence and restraint towards enemy combatants and civilians in sieges during the Napoleonic era. Spanning three continents, Gavin Daly's study places the British storm and sack of towns within the long-term history of siege violence and laws of war.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781108836142
• ISBN-10: 1108836143
• Artikelnr.: 63597704

Autorenporträt

Gavin Daly is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Tasmania. He has published widely on Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. He is the author of The British Soldier in the Peninsular War: Encounters with Spain and Portugal, 1808¿1814 (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Sieges in the Long Eighteenth Century
2. Surrender
3. Storm
4. Garrisons: The Fate of Enemy Soldiers
5. On Wellington's Watch
6. Plunder
7. Atrocities against Civilians
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.