Corderos precavidos frente a lobos mitificadoshumanidad vecinal y violencia guerrillera durante la Guerra de la Independencia

  1. Juan José Martín García 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Burgos
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    Universidad de Burgos

    Burgos, España

    ROR https://ror.org/049da5t36

Revue:
Clío & Crímen: Revista del Centro de Historia del Crimen de Durango

ISSN: 1698-4374

Année de publication: 2015

Titre de la publication: "Homo homini lupus": Los delitos contra las personas y de violencia en la Historia

Número: 12

Pages: 289-306

Type: Article

D'autres publications dans: Clío & Crímen: Revista del Centro de Historia del Crimen de Durango

Résumé

The Peninsula War led to countless atrocities and violent episodes committed by all the parties involved. Local documentary sources detail some interesting cases of the violent responses of local defence forces (partidas) to the presence and acts of deserters from the Napoleonic armies, generally belonging to the different nationalities incorporated into Empire. Such unedifying episodes, justified in the context of a supposedly revolutionary and patriotic war, force us to question the myth of the local partisans as romantic figures.