Flogging: What is the real story? How bad was it? Did it work? (w/ Zack White)

In the Sharpe TV series and books we see that morally corrupt, brutalised British officers during the Napoleonic era could dish out a flogging whenever they felt like it - that the men lived in fear of corporal punishment…But is that true?  It’s so difficult to sort fact from fiction when it comes to crime and punishment in Wellington’s army and so to help me to do so I am joined today by THE Expert on the subject…Zack White of the Napoleonic Wars podcast.    If you are interested in the Zulu War, then please sign up for my mailing list to receive my free book on the subject: If you are very generous, you can also buy me a coffee and help support the channel via