Brendan, I have not read the article (yet) but I don’t think so. Reading Esdaile’s Peninsular Eyewitness, for example, it is clearly wanton savagery and brutality perpetrated by those who managed to survive the horrors of the assault and get into the town (in search of drink and plunder). Charles Esdaile, Peninsular eyewitnesses: the experience of war in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1813, (Pen and Sword, 2008), pp. 201-12 (the section also covers the assault of, and subsequent mayhem in, Ciudad Rodrigo)
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