The Cat and the Database

May 28th, 2016 by Charles Cameron

  • Jimmy Lee – The Runaway, Naval Punishment

  • EyeWitness to History, A Flogging at Sea, 1839

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    1. carl:

      May 28th, 2016 at 6:42 pm

      Bernard Cornwell has a very vivid description of flogging as inflicted in the British army circa 1800 or so in Sharpe’s Tiger. I can’t vouch for the exact historical accuracy but it seemed reliable. It wasn’t something to be forgotten if ever seen.
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      It was a very enjoyable book though as are all of Cornwell’s.

    2. Charles Cameron:

      May 28th, 2016 at 8:11 pm

      And while we’r eon the subject of the “very vivid description of flogging”..
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      SPOILER ALERT: Two very different versions of the flogging of Christ coming up..
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      There’s this, from Mel Gibson:
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      So very different in tone from Handel’s version:
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