To: oyez
I doubt the present-day French will follow Bonaparte's lead at Jaffa in 1799 during his Egyptian Campaign. When his men took the city, they captured several thousand prisoners, some of whom were rcognized as having fought in an earlier battle and released on parole. Not wanting to keep so many prisoners, and not wanting to have them return to fight another day, Bonaparte had them all executed.
22 posted on
11/09/2005 12:08:38 PM PST by
Sans-Culotte
(Meadows Place, TX-"Tom DeLay Country")
To: Sans-Culotte
War is Hell. An expeditionary Army in those days didn't have many options when it comes to prisoners. They were too big of a liability.
24 posted on
11/09/2005 12:34:10 PM PST by
oyez
(Appeasement is death!)
To: Sans-Culotte
Speaking of Bonaparte, I wonder if Nicolas Sarkozy is really Corsican.
30 posted on
11/09/2005 4:29:21 PM PST by
steveegg
(Take two - throw those long knives at the DemonRATs and lieberals.)
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