Finding this funny where the only thing i've been doing is contradicting everything thats said, you know I know the difference between a tactical retreat and a rout i'm just watching all your reactions to the contradictory. You could say its a form of trolling but its more an assessment of your morals, for example if you look at the way Sharpe is written it is written in a context to boost the British Impericism .. making people beleive Britain were Heroes, exactly the way I have done just now ... only referencing those of British origin or British Nationality or British overseas provinces.
Now I would Duuring compare the morals and speech of Cornwell to yourself, you are extremely adamant to defend Belgium in every way and form where in Europe it was quite minor, much like Switzerland, Sardinia Piedmont, Modena, most of the States of the previous HRE.
The reasons why Cornwell tends not to assess these is because he views them as minor, so can happily pass them by with any comment he likes, for example British public vs Belgian public ... who do you think was the greater numbers? by using his writing to make the Beligians look bad he forced the British side up, this as I have said before is where the majority of his sales are. If he didn't do this then he may of lost sales to British and more the Belgian but considering the majority of his sales are towards British then that is where his vested interest is.
Onto Vested Interest, yours as a Belgian national is to defend it in anyway shape or form, which you do through your intense knowledge of the Belgians during the Napoleonic Era (Which I wouldn't dispute, except for this circumstance to help you assess yourself phsycologically and that of other people), but here you lack the passion to drive it forward, where Cornwell writes a book full of it you sit on the internet arguing with me.
On Money, Cornwell is clearly writing this book for profit, much like many writers of None historical books or "Based on true events" books, for example if you look into the Film industry you will no 100% historically accurate films, because they don't and will never do well. There will be a lot of elements made up to get the specific target audiances, as you can see in Cornwell his target Audiance is the British, your target Audiance is those with historical knowledge and opinions ... you can see where you are loosing out on money here.
Historical accuracy, Cornwell is obviously disputable, but is he really going for historical accuracy or just trying to snag another Audiance? Here you go for the Historical Accuracy vs British Nationalism argument, which is greater? through his works you can clearly see he going for Nationalism over Accuracy ... wether its right or wrong dosn't matter, it was clearly popular, and vastly more popular than Historically accurate books.
Here is a difference for you to think about, Heroes can run away from battles too, but what then makes him a coward? A Hero runs away at the right time, a Coward runs away at the wrong time. This right and wrong can be determined through multiple things, but running away dosn't make you a hero, your either that before or after it happens.
Its quite a puzzling thing this "Hero" business and not really something to delve into ... because well ... its an opinion and I don't want to get into the whole shinanigians of "Good and Bad" ... but the shortness of it is, Good and Bad are the opinons of a society already created, they are not fact ... One says "Good" the other says "Bad" who is the one to determine?
