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THB"Dear innocent babes were bayonetted and thrown out of the Door," Dramatic Anti-Napoleon Broadside
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- Lot Description
Printed broadside, 10.5 x 16.75 in. Produced for J. Ginger, Piccadilly, 1803.
Bold header: Horrors upon Horrors; or, What are the Hellish Deeds that can surprise us, when committed by the Blood-Hounds of the Arch-Fiend of Wickedness, the CORSICAN BONAPARTE?
Being a true and faithful Narrative of the Sufferings of a Hanoverian Blacksmith, who died raving Mad, in consequence of the dreadful Scenes of Barbarity, of which he had been late an Eye-witness, in his own Country. -- For the further Particulars of this horrid Scene, vide the British Neptune, from whence this Relation has been extracted.
Related as a story to an Englishman on the continent, who is accosted by a German Blacksmith, who grabs the Englishman about the knees, refusing to eat, sleep, or even let go of his legs until the Englishman promises to take him to England, as the blacksmith says, the only free country remaining in Europe, putting water between himself and the continent.
The blacksmith described to the Englishman the circumstances of his condition. French soldiers came into his shop, bound him, beat him and marched him away at the point of a bayonet, setting fire to his shop and home as they left. Along the way, they broke into another shop that sold sausages and other edibles, discovering a woman nursing her infant, with four other small children about her. They proceeded to rape the woman, triggering her six-year-old son to attack one of the soldiers. The Frenchmen then bayoneted all of the children and threw them on the garbage heap outside. After the gang-rape, they cleaned out her shop, then set fire to her house, leaving her beaten senseless inside, the blacksmith uncertain whether at least she escaped.
When they arrived at Harbourg, the Frenchmen made some comment about creating a German army to fight at St. Domingo, since all Frenchmen were occupied elsewhere. After the soldiers left, presumably to capture more young German men, another German came along and freed the still-bound blacksmith, risking his own life in the process. The blacksmith fled, traveling at night, hiding by day, until he reached the location where he encountered the Englishman.
The blacksmith (and the Englishman) conclude that if Napoleon's army can treat women and children that way, there are no horrors they won't commit. This kind of "blood and guts" writing was a hallmark of the period - people had just witnessed the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Irish rebellion (1798). Violence was pervasive and used to evoke feelings in the readers - fear, hatred, disgust. In America, this style continued well past the Napoleonic Wars. Abolitionists, for example, used graphic descriptions of slavery to stir anti-slavery sentiments.
Condition
Small chip out of bottom margin, not affecting any text. One small hole affecting only two letters of the Blacksmith's Narrative. Left margin a bit uneven.
Some surface scratches and dings consistent with age.
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