Gavin Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4122-7810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War, by Huw J. Davies
Anglo-French Sieges, the Laws of War, and the Limits of Enmity in the Peninsular War, 1808–1814
The many sieges of the Napoleonic Wars remain a relatively neglected area of historical study, especially in the context of the history of customary laws of war, where sieges played a central role. This article explores an important but largely forgotten episode in the infamous British storm and sack of the French-held Spanish towns of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz and San Sebastián during the Peninsular War: mercy to the French garrisons, who, in obst…
The sacking of a town is an abomination: Siege, sack and violence to civilians in British officers' writings on the Peninsular War - the case of Badajoz
For all its notoriety, the 1812 British sack of Badajoz during the Peninsular War has been surprisingly overlooked as a subject of historical investigation, symptomatic of a broader neglect of European sieges and sacks for this period. This article explores British officers' reactions to the sack through their letters and memoirs. It suggests rethinking Badajoz as a site not only of excess and atrocity, but also one of constraint, outrage, shame …
Great Battles: Waterloo
In a centenary year cluttered with military histories of Waterloo, the great virtue of Alan Forrest’s Waterloo is its focus on the battle’s cultural ‘afterlife’. After the familiar story of Napoleon’s return from Elba and the Waterloo campaign, the book comes into its own with a fascinating and revealing comparative discussion of how Waterloo was commemorated and remembered across the nineteenth century. Waterloo was a ‘Europe in arms’, up to a p…
British Soldiers and the Legend of Napoleon
Investigating the letters, diaries, and memoirs of British officers and enlisted men from the Napoleonic Wars, this article explores the hitherto neglected subject of British soldiers’ perceptions of Napoleon. Soldiers often formed mixed and ambivalent views on Napoleon. At one level, this corresponds with a range of attitudes within Britain, highlighting the important connections between soldiers and domestic culture. Yet these views also reveal…
Britain’s Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815, ed. Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack
This collection of essays, edited by Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack, is based largely on papers presented at a conference at Leeds University in 2011. As always, bringing together such a volume presents challenges, but the editors should be commended for overseeing a clear and coherent organisational framework. The book focuses on eighteenth-century British soldiers across the period from 1715 to 1815. It brings together both established and n…
Barbarity more suited to Savages: British soldiers’ views of Spanish and Portuguese violence during the Peninsular War, 1808–1814
This article explores British soldiers reactions to the violence that Iberiansoldiers, guerrillas and civilians perpetrated against wounded French soldiersand prisoners of war during the Peninsular War. Whilst they saw this violence asretaliatory, and sympathized with the suffering of the occupied, British soldierswere shocked, disturbed and outraged, often leading them to self-identify withtheir very enemy the French. On one level, this violence…
Indicators for Spatial Planning and Territorial Cohesion: Stakeholder-Driven Selection Approach for Improving Usability at Regional and Local Levels
González A., Daly G., Pinch P., Adams N., Valtenbergs V., Burns M. C. and Johannesson H. Indicators for spatial planning and territorial cohesion: stakeholder-driven selection approach for improving usability at regional and local levels, Regional Studies. Reformed European Union Cohesion Policy aims at delivering a coherent investment policy to achieve the Europe 2020 Strategy goals and to reduce regional disparities. Spatial indicators measure …
All Men Are Brethren: Prisoners of War in Scotland, 1803–1814 – By Ian MacDougall
A Dirty, Indolent, Priest‐Ridden City: British Soldiers in Lisbon during the Peninsular War, 1808–1813
Between 1808 and 1813 Lisbon was the gateway for British soldiers entering the Peninsular War. For many British soldiers the Iberian Peninsula was not only their first combat experience but also their first time abroad, with their military service as part of a broader experience of travel and cross‐cultural contact. British letters, diaries and memoirs of the Peninsular War have long been used by historians as the basis for military and campaign …
Napoleon and the ‘City of Smugglers’, 1810–1814
In the final years of the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon allowed English smugglers entry into the French ports of Dunkirk and Gravelines, encouraging them to run contraband back and forth across the Channel. Gravelines catered for up to 300 English smugglers, housed in a specially constructed compound known as the ‘city of smugglers’. Napoleon used the smugglers in the war against Britain. The smugglers arrived on the French coast with escaped French …
English Smugglers, the Channel, and the Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1814
During the NapoleonicWars the Channel between England and France \nremained a major site for smuggling. Both the British and French \ngovernments faced this problem. From the French perspective, \nbanned English textiles flooded continental markets; from the British perspective, \nsmugglers evaded duties on continental goods landed on local shores and illegally \nshipped people and goods out of Britain to France and the Netherlands. While \nthe s…
Napoleon's Lost Legions: French Prisoners of War in Britain, 1803–1814
During the Napoleonic Wars, over 100,000 French prisoners of war were held captive in Britain. These prisoners remain a marginal group in the military history of the period, yet they represent a key turning point in the history of European prisoners of war, and their predicament offers insights into the nature of the French Revolution. This article considers the treatment and experiences of French prisoners, and in particular seeks to understand …
Merchants and Maritime Commerce in Napoleonic Normandy
Journal Article MERCHANTS AND MARITIME COMMERCE IN NAPOLEONIC NORMANDY Get access GAVIN DALY GAVIN DALY *Gavin Daly is a lecturer in Modern European History in the School of Social Inquiry, Murdoch University, Australia. His book, Inside Napoleonic France, state and society in Rouen, 1800–1815, will be published by Ashgate later in 2001 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 15, Issue 1, Ma…
Conscription and corruption in Napoleonic France: The case of the seine‐inférieure
This article investigates the implementation and reception of Napoleonic conscription in the Norman department of the Seine‐Inférieure. Specifically, it illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of conscription regulation, and from a broader perspective, it enhances our knowledge of the nature of Napoleonic rule in the departments, and of local Napoleonic history itself. Conscription studies of Napoleonic France have traditionally focused upon des…
Napoleon's Lost Legions: French Prisoners of War in Britain, 1803–1814
During the Napoleonic Wars, over 100,000 French prisoners of war were held captive in Britain. These prisoners remain a marginal group in the military history of the period, yet they represent a key turning point in the history of European prisoners of war, and their predicament offers insights into the nature of the French Revolution. This article considers the treatment and experiences of French prisoners, and in particular seeks to understand …
Indicators for Spatial Planning and Territorial Cohesion: Stakeholder-Driven Selection Approach for Improving Usability at Regional and Local Levels
González A., Daly G., Pinch P., Adams N., Valtenbergs V., Burns M. C. and Johannesson H. Indicators for spatial planning and territorial cohesion: stakeholder-driven selection approach for improving usability at regional and local levels, Regional Studies. Reformed European Union Cohesion Policy aims at delivering a coherent investment policy to achieve the Europe 2020 Strategy goals and to reduce regional disparities. Spatial indicators measure …
English Smugglers, the Channel, and the Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1814
During the NapoleonicWars the Channel between England and France \nremained a major site for smuggling. Both the British and French \ngovernments faced this problem. From the French perspective, \nbanned English textiles flooded continental markets; from the British perspective, \nsmugglers evaded duties on continental goods landed on local shores and illegally \nshipped people and goods out of Britain to France and the Netherlands. While \nthe s…
Napoleon and the ‘City of Smugglers’, 1810–1814
In the final years of the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon allowed English smugglers entry into the French ports of Dunkirk and Gravelines, encouraging them to run contraband back and forth across the Channel. Gravelines catered for up to 300 English smugglers, housed in a specially constructed compound known as the ‘city of smugglers’. Napoleon used the smugglers in the war against Britain. The smugglers arrived on the French coast with escaped French …
The sacking of a town is an abomination: Siege, sack and violence to civilians in British officers' writings on the Peninsular War - the case of Badajoz
For all its notoriety, the 1812 British sack of Badajoz during the Peninsular War has been surprisingly overlooked as a subject of historical investigation, symptomatic of a broader neglect of European sieges and sacks for this period. This article explores British officers' reactions to the sack through their letters and memoirs. It suggests rethinking Badajoz as a site not only of excess and atrocity, but also one of constraint, outrage, shame …
British Soldiers and the Legend of Napoleon
Investigating the letters, diaries, and memoirs of British officers and enlisted men from the Napoleonic Wars, this article explores the hitherto neglected subject of British soldiers’ perceptions of Napoleon. Soldiers often formed mixed and ambivalent views on Napoleon. At one level, this corresponds with a range of attitudes within Britain, highlighting the important connections between soldiers and domestic culture. Yet these views also reveal…
A Dirty, Indolent, Priest‐Ridden City: British Soldiers in Lisbon during the Peninsular War, 1808–1813
Between 1808 and 1813 Lisbon was the gateway for British soldiers entering the Peninsular War. For many British soldiers the Iberian Peninsula was not only their first combat experience but also their first time abroad, with their military service as part of a broader experience of travel and cross‐cultural contact. British letters, diaries and memoirs of the Peninsular War have long been used by historians as the basis for military and campaign …
Conscription and corruption in Napoleonic France: The case of the seine‐inférieure
This article investigates the implementation and reception of Napoleonic conscription in the Norman department of the Seine‐Inférieure. Specifically, it illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of conscription regulation, and from a broader perspective, it enhances our knowledge of the nature of Napoleonic rule in the departments, and of local Napoleonic history itself. Conscription studies of Napoleonic France have traditionally focused upon des…
Merchants and Maritime Commerce in Napoleonic Normandy
Journal Article MERCHANTS AND MARITIME COMMERCE IN NAPOLEONIC NORMANDY Get access GAVIN DALY GAVIN DALY *Gavin Daly is a lecturer in Modern European History in the School of Social Inquiry, Murdoch University, Australia. His book, Inside Napoleonic France, state and society in Rouen, 1800–1815, will be published by Ashgate later in 2001 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 15, Issue 1, Ma…
Napoleon's Lost Legions: French Prisoners of War in Britain, 1803–1814
During the Napoleonic Wars, over 100,000 French prisoners of war were held captive in Britain. These prisoners remain a marginal group in the military history of the period, yet they represent a key turning point in the history of European prisoners of war, and their predicament offers insights into the nature of the French Revolution. This article considers the treatment and experiences of French prisoners, and in particular seeks to understand …
English Smugglers, the Channel, and the Napoleonic Wars, 1800–1814
During the NapoleonicWars the Channel between England and France \nremained a major site for smuggling. Both the British and French \ngovernments faced this problem. From the French perspective, \nbanned English textiles flooded continental markets; from the British perspective, \nsmugglers evaded duties on continental goods landed on local shores and illegally \nshipped people and goods out of Britain to France and the Netherlands. While \nthe s…
Napoleon and the ‘City of Smugglers’, 1810–1814
In the final years of the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon allowed English smugglers entry into the French ports of Dunkirk and Gravelines, encouraging them to run contraband back and forth across the Channel. Gravelines catered for up to 300 English smugglers, housed in a specially constructed compound known as the ‘city of smugglers’. Napoleon used the smugglers in the war against Britain. The smugglers arrived on the French coast with escaped French …
A Dirty, Indolent, Priest‐Ridden City: British Soldiers in Lisbon during the Peninsular War, 1808–1813
Between 1808 and 1813 Lisbon was the gateway for British soldiers entering the Peninsular War. For many British soldiers the Iberian Peninsula was not only their first combat experience but also their first time abroad, with their military service as part of a broader experience of travel and cross‐cultural contact. British letters, diaries and memoirs of the Peninsular War have long been used by historians as the basis for military and campaign …
All Men Are Brethren: Prisoners of War in Scotland, 1803–1814 – By Ian MacDougall
Indicators for Spatial Planning and Territorial Cohesion: Stakeholder-Driven Selection Approach for Improving Usability at Regional and Local Levels
González A., Daly G., Pinch P., Adams N., Valtenbergs V., Burns M. C. and Johannesson H. Indicators for spatial planning and territorial cohesion: stakeholder-driven selection approach for improving usability at regional and local levels, Regional Studies. Reformed European Union Cohesion Policy aims at delivering a coherent investment policy to achieve the Europe 2020 Strategy goals and to reduce regional disparities. Spatial indicators measure …
Britain’s Soldiers: Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815, ed. Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack
This collection of essays, edited by Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack, is based largely on papers presented at a conference at Leeds University in 2011. As always, bringing together such a volume presents challenges, but the editors should be commended for overseeing a clear and coherent organisational framework. The book focuses on eighteenth-century British soldiers across the period from 1715 to 1815. It brings together both established and n…
Barbarity more suited to Savages: British soldiers’ views of Spanish and Portuguese violence during the Peninsular War, 1808–1814
This article explores British soldiers reactions to the violence that Iberiansoldiers, guerrillas and civilians perpetrated against wounded French soldiersand prisoners of war during the Peninsular War. Whilst they saw this violence asretaliatory, and sympathized with the suffering of the occupied, British soldierswere shocked, disturbed and outraged, often leading them to self-identify withtheir very enemy the French. On one level, this violence…
Great Battles: Waterloo
In a centenary year cluttered with military histories of Waterloo, the great virtue of Alan Forrest’s Waterloo is its focus on the battle’s cultural ‘afterlife’. After the familiar story of Napoleon’s return from Elba and the Waterloo campaign, the book comes into its own with a fascinating and revealing comparative discussion of how Waterloo was commemorated and remembered across the nineteenth century. Waterloo was a ‘Europe in arms’, up to a p…
British Soldiers and the Legend of Napoleon
Investigating the letters, diaries, and memoirs of British officers and enlisted men from the Napoleonic Wars, this article explores the hitherto neglected subject of British soldiers’ perceptions of Napoleon. Soldiers often formed mixed and ambivalent views on Napoleon. At one level, this corresponds with a range of attitudes within Britain, highlighting the important connections between soldiers and domestic culture. Yet these views also reveal…
The sacking of a town is an abomination: Siege, sack and violence to civilians in British officers' writings on the Peninsular War - the case of Badajoz
For all its notoriety, the 1812 British sack of Badajoz during the Peninsular War has been surprisingly overlooked as a subject of historical investigation, symptomatic of a broader neglect of European sieges and sacks for this period. This article explores British officers' reactions to the sack through their letters and memoirs. It suggests rethinking Badajoz as a site not only of excess and atrocity, but also one of constraint, outrage, shame …
Anglo-French Sieges, the Laws of War, and the Limits of Enmity in the Peninsular War, 1808–1814
The many sieges of the Napoleonic Wars remain a relatively neglected area of historical study, especially in the context of the history of customary laws of war, where sieges played a central role. This article explores an important but largely forgotten episode in the infamous British storm and sack of the French-held Spanish towns of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz and San Sebastián during the Peninsular War: mercy to the French garrisons, who, in obst…
The Wandering Army: The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War, by Huw J. Davies
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