I already linked to a video of the Hornblower series:
The 1951 film, with Gregory Peck, that is about his later exploits can be found at internet Archives....
But I also found that Youtube has the Sharpe's Rifles series there: about a lower class guy who becomes and officer. The background is the Spanish war against Napoleon.
The Sharpe series does note the atrocities of Napoleon's soldiers after Napoleon replaced the king with his brother, and the locals rose up against them.
Most people are vaguely aware of this thanks to Goya.
The Sharpe and Hornblower sagas are pro British and show one side:
But the problem is that alas too often the deaths and destruction of Napoleon's wars are sort of air-brushed over because too many historians support the narrative that he was destroying the old monarchies and replacing them with the good ideals of the French revolution that promised to remake mankind and impose a government instpired by reason.
You see, the culture wars didn't start with Justice Bork: They date back centuries.
The common narrative of too many history books ignores that what was being imposed was radical and destroyed little things like freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and ignored the objections of the ordinary folk who didn't support these ideas that destroyed their way of life.
The opposition of the Spanish to Napoleonic takeover is the one best known to the west because the British government helped the rebels, and the atrocities by the French against civilians in the countryside were finally documented by Goya's paintings remind us.
But opposition to the radical ideas of the revolution predated that part of the war: and although the royalist attempts at uprisings are often portrayed as greedy nobility seeking to keep their money (see Hornblower number four) , this is only partly true: It ignores the uprising of ordinary folks back then.
When Simon Shama's book Citizens was published, I remember many reviewers were not aware of the genocides against ordinary citizens who opposed them as happened in the Vendee. Amazon link here, or Internet archive has his book to lend.
Like the more modern Cristero rebellion in Mexico, the Vendee was an uprising of ordinary folk against a regime that was imposing atheism on the country because they saw the church as a symbol of the older regime, and as a superstiious cult that needed to be destroyed because it opposed their utopian ideas.
The French Revolution closed churches, replaced the clergy with clergy who would preach the revolutionay gospel, and persecuted the churches who refused; mainly Catholic churches. (it should be noted that many Protestants who had hoped for religious freedom under the revolution, but found their churches shut down to
The war there went beyond defeating the rebels who took up arms:
In the Vendee, however, the people rose up to protect their priests and churches from the new revolutionary government. When the government ordered them to form a conscript military unit, they rebelled, joining together in local militias which were collectively known as the Catholic and Royal Army.
This alarmed the new government, who sent the army to tackle the problem. After a series of pitched battles, the Catholic and Royal Army was defeated.
end of story, right? But it wasn't. The revolution was to remake the world, and so needed to destroy any opposition. And like the destruction of the Kulaks or the Holdamar, they decided that the entire population of the area needed to be punished.
But the government didn’t stop there. Determined to prevent another such uprising, the government sent General Louis Marie Turreau with twelve columns of troops to destroy to Vendee. Farms, villages, supplies and forests were destroyed, and the soldiers killed without restriction. When it was over, General Francois Joseph Westermann wrote a letter back to the government saying: “There is no more Vendée…"
and voila, the massacres of innocents was ignored by many historians.
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
Sigh.
But every once in awhile someone says: no.
And these atrocities might be remembered by one of those who seek the truth.
This little watched 2012 film was about the revolt in the Vendee seems a bit one sided rah rah to be taken seriously:
However, there might finally be a film that might actually be watched, and given the sharp critical reviews suggest it must be more truthful.
TeaAtTrianon blog reports there is a new French film that tells the forgotten story of the Vendee:
and given the ferocity of the reviewers who dislike it, makes one suggest that the film might actually break through the wall of silence on this first genocide of revolutions that want to remake the world.
set auto translate english for subtitles.
Those defending Napoleon rarely blame him for the atrocities of the earlier part of the revolution. They insist he refused to assist the war against the Vendee uprising, and deny rumors of Napoleon's cannons killing civilians. However, this charge is made more believable considering his murder of civilians by his canons in the Tuileries in Paris when they too tried to rebel against the revolutionary government
In other words, the children of God died because, as the saying goes: God is on the side of the heavy artilliary.
Sigh.
as for the lessons of the Vendee:
Yes, there is a reason that the FBI is listing traditoinal Catholic organizations as threats. (the document later retracted when it became public). No, not the fake reason of "white supremacy",
In a war between normal and crazy, with little outcry from those afraid of being the object of mean tweets, or even losing their job for saying the emperor has no clothes. their open opposition to the cultural revolution being pushed on the USA makes them the enemy.
Because, unlike the more polite mainstream Catholics, they might be like the Child who says: But he has no clothes.
And that is why they must be watched carefully by the FBI. No, not because they are violent racists, but because they probably won't bow to Moloch.
Father Z's tongue in cheek advice on how to tell if the FBI is checking in on you.
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