Flogging: What is the Real Story? How bad was it? Did it Work?

</p> <h2>Flogging: What is the real story?</h2> <p> In the Sharpe TV series and books we see that morally corrupt, brutalised British officers during the Napoleonic era could dish out a flogging whenever they felt like it – that the men lived in fear of corporal punishment…But is that true?<br /> It’s so difficult to sort fact from fiction when it comes to crime and punishment in Wellington’s army and so to help me to do so I am joined today by THE Expert on the subject…Zack White of the Napoleonic Wars podcast.<br /> Credit to : Redcoat History </p> <p>

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