MF ugly.
Robert Werlich, “Beast” Buller: The Incredible Career of Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler (Washington, D.C.: The Quaker Press, 1962), p. 39
“As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insults from the women calling themselves “ladies” of New Orleans in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall by word, gesture or movement insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.”
Do you agree with Rape?
Palmerston, the British Prime Minister, wrote to Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. Minister in London the following concerning Butler’s order
“I will venture to say that no exanple can be found in the history of civilized nations till the publication of this order of a General guilty in cold blood of so infamous an act as deliberately to hand over the female inhabitants of a conquered city to the unbridled license of an unrestrained soldiery”
MF ugly.
Palmerston's in a pretty big glass house to be throwing stones. Read up on the Indian Mutiny of 1857--a people fighting for self determination if there ever was one--and the British suppression of it by Palmerston's government. Hundreds of thousands of rebels and their civilian sympathizers were executed, many by being tied against the muzzle of a cannon and blown apart. So spare me Palmerston's tender sensibilities.