In British and Spanish Hands. The Captivity of French Soldiers and Officers in Great Britain and the Iberian Peninsula
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2015.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : More than 150,000, though probably as many as 180 to 190,000, French soldiers experienced captivity in Great Britain and in the Iberian Peninsula in the period 1803 to 1814. This article considers the available sources and adopts a specific methodological approach in order to show how experience of captivity in Britain and Spain was both varied and yet similar. Two striking features are the length of time spent in captivity and the exceptional severity of custody – though this latter must be viewed according to the standards of the time. Certain case studies show how the return to civilian life for captives was rendered difficult by imprisonment, since this latter was the source of a number of traumatisms.
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More than 150,000, though probably as many as 180 to 190,000, French soldiers experienced captivity in Great Britain and in the Iberian Peninsula in the period 1803 to 1814. This article considers the available sources and adopts a specific methodological approach in order to show how experience of captivity in Britain and Spain was both varied and yet similar. Two striking features are the length of time spent in captivity and the exceptional severity of custody – though this latter must be viewed according to the standards of the time. Certain case studies show how the return to civilian life for captives was rendered difficult by imprisonment, since this latter was the source of a number of traumatisms.
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