#Joseph Burgo

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

[noodles-07]

on september and the ship of theseus

snippet from one of my poems / Justin DeRosa / new york times / Edward Wilkins Waite painting / Joseph Lee painting / Julia De Burgos / Jim Choate / lyrics from How Long from Hadestown / unknown / Holly Black / Rowland E. Robinson / lyrics from Growing Sideways by Noah Kahan / Sylvia Plath / unknown / snippet from the same one of my poems

[mr-monsters]

‏«نحن عادة نمضي في الحياة معتقدين أن تجربتنا الواعية هي بداية ونهاية هويتنا؛ لكن في الحقيقة، أجزاء مهمة من حياتنا العاطفية قد تظل مخفية عنا»

Joseph Burgo

[josefavomjaaga]

Bessières and Soult in Spain

After the battle of Baylèn in 1808, King Pepe Joseph had been driven from Madrid for the first time. Napoleon could not come to his brother’s aid immediately, because he first had to watch some theater plays together with Alexander during their meeting at Erfurt. Priorities. However, among others, Bessières was still holding out in Spain (under direct orders of Joseph which cannot have been much fun), leading second corps.

When the congress of Erfurt had ended, Napoleon hastily threw all available troops into the peninsula, including a certain marshal Soult who was destined to take over second corps. And while Soult’s presence usually caused his fellow marshals to adapt a slightly hostile attitude, Bessières, waiting in front of the enemy fortress of Burgos and not quite daring to attack, might be the only example of the marshal species who even wished for Soult's prompt arrival. It even seems that, on learning on 6 November 1808 that Soult was on his way and that he himself would take over Murat’s former position at the head of the cavalry reserve, he deliberately postponed all action and rather chose to leave the job to Soult:

The day of 8 November was lost unnecessarily by Bessières, and this was a blunder [...] The Marshal gave no serious excuse for his inaction; was it the high number of men attributed to the enemy that stopped him, was it that he waited for Soult's arrival in order to hand over command of the 2nd corps to him and to concern himself only with the cavalry? In a first letter to Berthier, he announced that "a full-scale battle" was needed to take the vicinity of Burgos, but he did not dare or did not want to fight it. In a second letter, he wrote: "I would very much like Marshal Soult to arrive soon... Marshal Soult and I will get on very well together."

As weird as that sounds, he was right about that latter point. Bessières also seems to have been delighted at the idea of rejoining Napoleon’s guard and at taking over the cavalry. Sounds as if he, learned cavalryman that he was, had not been very comfortable with commanding infantry.

Soult set out from Vittoria towards Briviesca on the evening of the 8th and joined Bessières on the morning of the 9th, who handed over command of the 2nd Corps to him.

Bessières: Oh, for god’s sake, you’re here! Look, I’m perfectly fine with the cavalry stuff but … there’s also all these folks who have uniforms and weapons – but no horses? Do you know what those are? What are we supposed to do with them?

Soult took command of his troops and began his offensive movement: he stopped on the evening of the 9th at the entrance to the defile which from Quintanapalla through Villafria leads to Gamonal and opens onto the Burgos plain. He wrote to Berthier: "His Excellency Marshal Bessières has kindly agreed to come with me as far as Burgos…"

Soult: Oh, c’mon, Bessie, I’m sure the emperor can wait another day. We’ve not even had time to properly catch up on everything…

Bessières: Okay. But only as far as Burgos. I’m not in the mood for another of Nappy’s lectures...

Bessières was to lead the cavalry, Soult the infantry. Soult had only expected an "avantgarde engagement" to take Burgos: it was a battle that had to be fought, as Bessières had thought, but the battle was a brilliant victory. On 10 November, at noon, Soult wrote to the Emperor from Burgos: "Your Majesty is master of Burgos: the corps of Estramadure, 12,000 strong, is destroyed. There are already more than 1,000 prisoners, 10 cannon, many caissons: the ground, for more than a league, is covered with corpses, weapons and debris; two flags have also been taken. Marshal Bessières has already passed Burgos and is pursuing on the road to Madrid all those who fled in a rout..."

[Translated from: A. Rabel, Le Maréchal Bessières, Duc d’Istrie]

Seeing somebody work well together with Soult in Spain is a nice change for once. Unfortunately it was pretty much the only time.

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024

Día de Conmemoración de todas las víctimas de la guerra química, Día Internacional de la Seguridad Informática, Día Internacional de la lucha contra los Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria (TCA), Día del Influencer, Año Internacional de los Camélidos.

Santa Andrea, San Andrés, San Andrés y Apóstol.

Tal día como hoy en el año 2000

La Unesco declara Patrimonio de la Humanidad el Palmeral Histórico de Elche.

1939

En el trascurso de la II Guerra Mundial, la URSS bombardea las principales ciudades finlandesas a la vez que inicia una ofensiva terrestre, dando inicio a la llamada "Guerra de Invierno". Por este hecho la URSS será expulsada de la Sociedad de Naciones el 14 de diciembre. (Hace 85 años)

1936

En Londres, Reino Unido, un pavoroso incendio destruye el Crystal Palace, el gigante de cristal que sirvió como Palacio de Exposiciones Universal para albergar la Gran Exhibición de 1851. El sueño de su diseñador, Joseph Paxton, el elegante símbolo victoriano del esplendor del vapor, el carbón y el acero, desaparece para siempre. Winston Churchill, respecto a este icono, afirmará: "Éste es el final de una era". (Hace 88 años)

1886

En París (Francia) la sala Folies Bergère presenta una revista en la que actúan mujeres con trajes sensacionales y ligeros. Hacia 1890, el Folies, siguiendo la moda entre los parisinos se convertirá en sala especializada en espectáculos de "strip-tease". El local no reparará en gastos y en su almacén contará con más de 1.000 vestidos. Sin tener en cuenta a los actores, la sala tiene cerca de 200 personas sólo como personal de apoyo. (Hace 138 años)

1853

Durante la Guerra de Crimea, los rusos destruyen la flota turca situada en el puerto de Sinope (actual Turquía), en el mar Negro, provocando enérgicas protestas de Gran Bretaña y Francia. Al hacer Rusia caso omiso, estas dos potencias europeas terminarán declarándole la guerra en marzo de 1854. (Hace 171 años)

1833

En España, Javier de Burgos, Ministro de Fomento, aprueba un decreto mediante el cual el territorio español se divide en 49 provincias que tomarán el nombre de su capital, excepto Álava, Navarra, Guipuzcoa y Vizcaya que conservarán sus nombres. En 1927 las islas Canarias se dividirán en dos provincias (Las Palmas y Santa Cruz de Tenerife) con lo que España quedará finalmente repartida en 50 provincias que, junto a las ciudades autónomas de Ceuta y Melilla, comprenderán la totalidad del territorio español. (Hace 191 años)

1803

Aunque fue en 1800 cuando España cedió el vasto territorio de Luisiana a Francia, la ceremonia oficial de entrega no tiene lugar hasta el día de hoy, cuando la bandera española es arriada y se iza en su lugar el pabellón francés. Al tiempo que las autoridades españolas cesan su actividad, la nueva autoridad francesa toma posesión. Esta formalidad es necesaria para que los franceses entreguen Luisiana a los americanos, que se la han comprado en abril de este mismo año. Finalmente, el 20 de diciembre, se izará la enseña estadounidense en este territorio. Más tarde, esta extensa región de Luisiana se dividirá formando otros 13 estados. (Hace 221 años)

[mundoxnews]

Allanamiento en San Juan deja cuatro arrestados y una fianza global de $300,000

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Cuatro individuos fueron acusados formalmente por violaciones a la Ley de Armas y la Ley de Sustancias Controladas, luego de ser arrestados el pasado 22 de febrero de 2025 en medio de un allanamiento en el residencial Vista Hermosa. Los detenidos fueron identificados como Aníbal Soto Burgos (22 años), Joseph Ortiz Reyes (22 años), Orlionys Romero Hernández (18 años) y…

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.27 (before 1930)

537 – The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated. 1512 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World. 1521 – The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the peace and preaching the Apocalypse. 1655 – Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege. 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in North American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right. 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which allows Portugal to export wines to England on favorable trade terms. 1814 – War of 1812: The destruction of the schooner USS Carolina brings to an end Commodore Daniel Patterson's makeshift fleet, which fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans. 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution. 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing eight people. 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia. 1845 – Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country. 1911 – "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. 1918 – The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. 1918 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine occupies Yekaterinoslav and seizes seven airplanes from the UPRAF, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet. 1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world. 1927 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway. 1929 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

[rinconesliterarios08]

"Los Tres Cerditos" es un cuento clásico que ha resistido el paso de las generaciones gracias a su mensaje perdurable. En esta historia, tres simpáticos cerditos nos muestran la importancia de la planificación, la perseverancia y la colaboración al enfrentar adversidades. Con personajes entrañables y una narración cautivadora, este libro es una joya literaria que sigue siendo una lección esencial para los jóvenes lectores de todas las edades.

Biografía del autor:

El autor del famoso cuento de "Los Tres Cerditos" es un tema de debate, ya que esta historia ha sido parte del folclore y la tradición oral durante muchos años. No obstante, la versión más conocida y difundida del cuento fue popularizada por el autor y folclorista inglés Joseph Jacobs en su libro "English Fairy Tales" (Cuentos de Hadas Ingleses), publicado por primera vez en 1890.

Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) fue un erudito y escritor que recopiló y editó numerosas historias populares y cuentos de hadas tradicionales, incluyendo "Los Tres Cerditos". Jacobs fue un defensor de preservar y compartir estas historias populares británicas y europeas, y su trabajo contribuyó significativamente a su conservación y difusión.

Por lo tanto, aunque la historia de "Los Tres Cerditos" existe en diversas formas en la tradición oral mucho antes de Jacobs, él es a menudo acreditado por popularizarla en la forma que conocemos hoy en día.

Jamil Burgos

[beardedmrbean]

Went to the Gateway Pundit article, which led me to their source, that being the Daily Caller, not terribly popular on the political left, and while they do have a bias they're still generally honest provided you read through the loaded language.

Bradley told the DCNF her opinions on puberty blockers evolved over time.

“We thought that it was relatively safe, and endocrinologists said they’re reversible, and that we didn’t have to worry about it. I had this skepticism in the back of my mind all the time that maybe we were actually colluding and not helping them. And I think that’s proven correct in that, once these kids get started at any age on puberty blockers, nearly all of them continue to want to go to cross sex hormones,” Bradley said.

“An opinion from someone like Dr. Bradley has enormous potential to influence debate because she is what Cass Sunstein has called a ‘surprising validator,'” Joseph Burgo, psychotherapist and vice director of Genspect, told the DCNF. “It’s human nature to dismiss even well-reasoned arguments and credible evidence from those who are readily identified as on the other side, as ‘them’ — say, Republicans, or well-known ‘transphobes.’ But Dr. Bradley is a pioneer in the field and politically unaligned.”

“She does not argue that puberty blockers are never appropriate. Instead, she urges a cautious exploratory approach to gender distress based upon her decades of experience,” Burgo said. “When a professional who might have been expected to align with one side (affirmative care) issues a nuanced opinion and urges caution, it can help members of the public not to takes side against her, to polarize and dismiss her opinions, but instead to open their minds to alternative points of view. Surprising validators like Dr. Bradley can soften divisions and promote dialog even more than well-balanced presentations with arguments from both sides can do.”

Looking in the GP article for the quote that became the headline

I have a problem with that 2nd paragraph being misattributed here it would seem

Skepticism of puberty blockers has grown in recent years amid high-profile scandals involving pediatric gender clinics prescribing blockers to halt the healthy puberty of children as young as 10 with allegedly inadequate psychological screening. Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist and founder of Genspect, an organization that is critical of childhood gender transitions, voiced concerns about the intervention in a previous interview with the DCNF.

“Blocking the sexual development of children is a highly authoritarian intervention. Children are asexual, and so they can’t understand the impact of impaired sexual functioning, she said. “We are roughly 10 years into this large-scale experiment and already we have reports on issues with cognitive development, bone mineral density, and fertility. All the up-to-date evidence shows that puberty blockers are neither safe nor reversible.”

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First paragraph is Dr Bradley, they clipped off a bit from the beginning nothing terribly important tho.

Without expressing an opinion on the validity of the study or research or anything like that I would suggest everyone check out the Daily Caller article, since that's the source everyone else is using so it's good to go with.

[bookjunkiez]

Building Self-Esteem Blitz

  How Learning from Shame Helps Us to Grow Self-Help Date Published: May 2020 Publisher: New Rise Press

Despite what most people believe, shame and self-esteem are not opposites. “With the skill of a master storyteller, Burgo vividly brings to life, through his clients’ struggles and his own, our shared journey to accept a startling truth: shame can either hobble us or help us…

[gatheringbones]

[“I think shame provides social capital to white people in a few key ways. First, it garners sympathy. In the era of self-care, shame is something we believe we shouldn’t feel. If shame says “I am bad” rather than “what I did was bad,” then, in a self-care/self-help framework, no one should feel shame because we are all inherently good. The “I am inherently good” mantra is amplified for white people because our goodness is systematically reinforced across society: “good” neighborhoods and schools being stand-ins for white, and white as a stand-in for ideal human. When that taken-for-granted yet unacknowledged sense of racial goodness is challenged, we feel attacked at our very core. Whiteness studies scholar Michelle Fine speaks to this moral insulation when she says: “Whiteness accrues privilege and status, gets itself surrounded by protective pillows of resources and/or benefits of the doubt; how Whiteness repels gossip and voyeurism and instead demands dignity.” White people seldom find ourselves without these “protective pillows,” and when we do, it is typically because we have chosen to temporarily step outside our comfort zones. Within our insulated racial environment we come to not only expect racial comfort but to also be less tolerant of racial stress. Expressing shame elicits comfort and relief as we turn to others seeking reassurance, in essence asking to be reminded of our goodness.

For white progressives, shame is seen as socially legitimate (or we wouldn’t express it), a sign that we care and that we feel empathy. This may be why we express shame so much more readily than guilt. Guilt means we are responsible for something; shame relieves us of responsibility. If I focus on what I did, I must take responsibility for repair. If I focus on what I am, it is impossible to change and I am relieved of responsibility.

In distinguishing shame from guilt, psychologist Joseph Burgo explains,

Although many people use the two words ‘guilt’ and ‘shame’ interchangeably, from a psychological perspective, they actually refer to different experiences. Guilt and shame sometimes go hand in hand; the same action may give rise to feelings of both shame and guilt, where the former reflects how we feel about ourselves and the latter involves an awareness that our actions have injured someone else. In other words, shame relates to self; guilt to others.

If guilt relates to external actions and shame to an internal or private state, we can begin to see why shame is the preferred narrative: it protects our positions within the status quo by making it difficult for anyone outside ourselves to address. (The “personal experience” narrative functions the same way; as soon as I invoke that what I am claiming is “just my personal experience,” it becomes private—something internal to myself that only I can know or understand and that therefore cannot be challenged by others.)

Second, it is hard to move forward when we feel shame, as shame tends to be paralyzing; shame actually excuses us from moving forward. What can we do when we feel so bad? We can’t act until we work through this feeling, and that will take time and resources. Of course, given the requirement of time and resources, most of us won’t work through our feelings at all.

Indulging in racial shame whenever we feel exposed (but only when we feel exposed) puts our focus on ourselves and away from those we may have harmed. In this way, shame functions to deny our power and excuse our paralysis, allowing us to indulge in a sense of our own victimization. Both bell hooks and Audre Lorde have noted that feeling bad about racism or white privilege can function as a form of self-centeredness in which white progressives turn the focus back onto themselves. Hooks considered shame to be the performance of whiteness and not an indicator that whiteness was being interrupted.

Feminist writer and independent scholar Sara Ahmed explains, “The shameful white subject expresses shame about its racism, and in expressing its shame, it ‘shows’ that it is not racist: if we are shamed, we mean well. The white subject that is shamed by whiteness is also a white subject that is proud about its shame. The very claim to feel bad (about this or that) also involves a self-perception of ‘being good.’” In other words, if I feel bad enough, I both demonstrate and retain my morality. Ahmed raises the question of whether anti-racism is really about “making people feel better: safer, happier, more hopeful, less depressed, and so on.” There is certainly much concern within anti-racist education about white people not feeling “too” bad lest they withdraw from engagement, and much time and attention is given to keeping white people in the conversation. This concern is heightened when the shame narrative emerges; we now must tread very carefully so as not to cause the person to disengage.”]

robin diangelo, from nice racism: how progressive white people perpetuate racial harm

[coochiequeens]

Young kids shouldn’t be exposed to this

Shocking footage of 'family friendly' drag queen show sees performer spreading their legs and thrusting their breasts in front of children who are encouraged to leave tips

A drag queen appeared to be performing at a 'family friendly' event

Young kids were present as the sexually suggestive moves were made

The drag queen spread their legs and thrust their breasts forward

A young boy could be seen handing a trip towards another cast member

Footage posted by infamous Libs of TikTok account sparked outrage online

Shocking footage has emerged on Twitter of a so-called 'family friendly' drag queen show in which one of the performers can be seen spreading their legs in front of an audience that includes young children.

'This is what a 'family friendly' drag show looks like. Drag queens spreading their legs for little kids to tip them,' stated the infamous Libs of TikTok Twitter account.

Although the time and location are yet to be identified, the event appears to have been sponsored by IPIC Movie Theaters which operates a number of locations across the northeastern US, Florida and California.

In the short clip, a scantily clad drag queen performs a forward role along a catwalk before then suggestively spreading their legs wide in a skimpy leotard. 

Several young children were present in the audience as the suggestive moves were made

The performer then thrusts their breast forward, all-the-while a young boy is merely feet away and appears to hand a tip over to another cast member.  

Earlier this year, the person behind the Libs of TikTok Facebook account - previously doxxed as Brooklyn real estate agent Chaya Raichik, was suspended from the social media platform permanently.

The anti-woke Twitter account Libs of TikTok has long shared their growing concern about children being brought to sexualized shows in the name of diversity. 

This latest clip generated a visceral response online.

'As a gay man, I disavow this entirely. This is thoroughly inappropriate and needs to stop,' wrote Joseph Jones.

'I don't know how these 'family friendly' drag shows became so common, so fast. I feel like just a year ago this wasn't a thing,' said Joseph Steimle.

'I just DO NOT understand the parents who willingly expose their kids to this crap. Nah, I don't WANT to understand,' said one.

'This is super weird. These parents should be investigated,' added another.  

Similar instances have been recorded in the past including in September 2021 when a young girl was filmed tipping a drag queen baring a huge set of synthetic breasts during a 'family-friendly' event at a Michigan gay venue. 

The child, whose age was not disclosed, passed a bill to RuPaul's Drag Race star Yara Sofia at Hamburger Mary's in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the clip.

She was sat on the knee of an adult woman at the time, who smiled warmly as the youngster tipped the performer, whose real name is Gabriel Burgos Ortiz.

Sofia strutted around the bar wearing a pair of large fake breasts that hung outside her costumes, complete with tiny yellow pasties covering the nipples in what appeared to be an arch attempt at modesty. 

The Grand Rapids outlet of Hamburger Mary's closed in January of this year, but its Facebook page is still active, complete with scores of fliers for events.

Many of them are explicitly advertised as being for audiences aged 18+ only.

But the flyer for the drag event attended by Yara Sofia was not, suggesting that it may indeed have also been marketed as a 'family-friendly' event.

The videos of youngsters interacting with the drag queens comes as debates rage across the country about whether young children are being exposed to content that is inappropriate by well-meaning family members and educators in the name of support for LGBT equality.

New York City has been spending heavily on sending drag queens into its public elementary schools, dropping more than $200,000 on appearances since 2018. 

In May, records show the city paying $46,000 to send Drag Story Hour NYC to public schools, libraries, and street festivals, according to the New York Post.

Some parents say the programs were booked without their consent, while city officials have responded with outrage, according to the Post.

Drag Queen story-hours have also hit the headlines. They see performers read story books to children at events held in schools or libraries.

The books read to kids are children's story books, usually by drag queens in less-revealing outfits. 

Supporters say the events are harmless and innocent, but conservatives claim the story hours often veer into age-inappropriate vulgarity.  

Drag Queen Story Hour, a nonprofit, was started in San Francisco in 2015 by activist and author Michelle Tea. Chapters have since opened across the U.S. and elsewhere. Other organizations with readers in drag have also formed.

As part of Drag Queen Story Hour's programming, drag queens read to children and their parents at libraries, bookstores, fairs, parks and other public spaces to celebrate reading 'through the glamorous art of drag.'

In 2021, there were 67 in-person appearances and 141 with almost 1,000 school children exposed. In 2022 alone, Drag Story Hour NYC has made 49 appearances at 34 public schools in New York City, according to its website. 

The organization characterizes itself as promoting inclusivity, creativity, and acceptance of the self in children, by exposing them to drag queens reading similarly thematic books. 

The funds were provided by city council members, with $80,000 being allocated for drag programs in 2022 alone - over three times as much as was provided in 2020 for drag programs.

[josefavomjaaga]

Brun meets Napoleon in 1813 (1)

In the appendix of the "Cahiers" written by Soult's aide-de-camp Brun, there are various documents that describe events from the perspective of Soult's staff officers. I thought some of it might be quite interesting, for example the account of an audience (I believe, his third) that Brun had with Napoleon in Paris in January 1813 – i.e., after the Russian campaign, after the evacuation of Andalusia and after the mutual accusations between Soult and Joseph. Among other things, Soult once again asked to be relieved of his post.

The report is rather long, so I will have to divide it into several posts.

Colonel Brun de Villeret to Marshal Soult, Paris, January 1813

I was announced to His Imperial Majesty at 7 o'clock in the evening on 30 December. He was at dinner, He immediately deigned to order that I be introduced, and I found myself in His presence, while He was at table with the Empress, with the King of Rome on his lap.

Which, admittedly, was already one reason for me to post this. I’ve so often voiced my doubts about those happy father-son anecdotes featuring the King of Rome that I feel obliged to post about me being proven wrong by Soult’s favourite aide 😁. (Though I also would like to state that this obviously is not a truly private occasion and that the presence of the Imperial heir may have served a political purpose as well. So there.)

I was greeted in the most gracious manner. His Majesty began by asking me for news of Monsieur the Duke of Dalmatia with the greatest interest, and immediately getting down to business, he asked me to give him details of our last campaign.

Because nothing whets the appetite more than a tale of battlefields with lots of corpses. Right, Marie-Louise?

I spoke in the presence of the prefect of the palace, the women of the King of Rome, pages and servants, and I confined myself to reporting what could be published in the gazettes; I spoke of our situation in Andalusia, the scale of our operations, the good administration of the country, the regrets caused to us by the loss of such a beautiful province, and finally of the advantage we had gained from our depots and the eighteen months' pay which Monsieur the Duke of Dalmatia had given to the army.

Because carrying the money with us to Valencia, only to hand it over to Joseph and his Spanish administration, was out of the question, of course. - Well, at least the soldiers under Soult’s command had received their salaries, from what I have gathered from Joseph’s correspondence, that was not always the case.

I described the difficulties we had encountered in the mountains of Murcia, the dangers of crossing the rivers, our good fortune in escaping yellow fever after being slightly affected by it, and finally the satisfaction felt by the Duke of Dalmatia in having left only 300 or 400 hopeless sick men in Andalusia and in having brought 6,000 of them to the first places occupied by the army of Aragon, nine-tenths of whom should now have recovered perfectly.

And presumably Brun talked about the retreat, its problems and eventual success at such length because he correctly assumed that Joseph had complained to Napoleon and to Clarke and anybody else who would listen about Soult’s retreat from Andalusia having taken too long.

During my account, the Emperor gave me several signs of great satisfaction. He asked me where the King was, and on my reply that I had heard, on leaving Valladolid, that he had arrived in Madrid on 3 December, he asked me: "Wouldn't it have been better for him to have stayed in Burgos?"

Which is probably Napoleon’s way of saying: "Okay, yellow fever, mountains, rivers, got it. Let’s get to the juicy stuff. Have your marshal and my brother already come to blows yet?"

I replied that I had many things to say to His Majesty on this subject; He understood that I could not explain myself in the presence of so many witnesses, and, changing the subject, he asked me various questions about the siege of Burgos, to which it was all the easier for me to reply, as during the four days that I had been forced to stay in this town, I had examined in the greatest detail the place, the work of the besiegers and that of the besieged. I paid a tribute as glowing as it was disinterested to the defence of the garrison, and as dinner was drawing to a close at that very moment, I was able to spend a few moments with the King of Rome, with whom His Majesty wished to amuse himself, and whose form and constitution He deigned to have me admire.

And that’s a nice way to end. I find it interesting that Brun mentions Napoleon’s son so often in an official report to his marshal. But I guess he saw the fact that Napoleon talked to him about the little king as an additional honour, which in turn reflected well on Napoleon’s attitude towards Soult.

Or maybe they just loved to talk about kinds, like apparently all French militarymen 😊.

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 30 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2023

Día de Conmemoración de todas las víctimas de la guerra química, Día Internacional de la Seguridad Informática, Día Internacional de la lucha contra los Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria (TCA), Día del Influencer, Año Internacional del Mijo y Año Internacional del Diálogo como Garantía de Paz.

Santa Andrea, San Andrés, San Andrés y Apóstol.

Tal día como hoy en el año 1939

En el trascurso de la II Guerra Mundial, la URSS bombardea las principales ciudades finlandesas a la vez que inicia una ofensiva terrestre, dando inicio a la llamada "Guerra de Invierno". Por este hecho la URSS será expulsada de la Sociedad de Naciones el 14 de diciembre. (Hace 84 años)

1936

En Londres, Reino Unido, un pavoroso incendio destruye el Crystal Palace, el gigante de cristal que sirvió como Palacio de Exposiciones Universal para albergar la Gran Exhibición de 1851. El sueño de su diseñador, Joseph Paxton, el elegante símbolo victoriano del esplendor del vapor, el carbón y el acero, desaparece para siempre. Winston Churchill, respecto a este icono, afirmará: "Éste es el final de una era". (Hace 87 años)

1886

En París (Francia) la sala Folies Bergère presenta una revista en la que actúan mujeres con trajes sensacionales y ligeros. Hacia 1890, el Folies, siguiendo la moda entre los parisinos se convertirá en sala especializada en espectáculos de "strip-tease". El local no reparará en gastos y en su almacén contará con más de 1.000 vestidos. Sin tener en cuenta a los actores, la sala tiene cerca de 200 personas sólo como personal de apoyo. (Hace 137 años)

1853

Durante la Guerra de Crimea, los rusos destruyen la flota turca situada en el puerto de Sinope (actual Turquía), en el mar Negro, provocando enérgicas protestas de Gran Bretaña y Francia. Al hacer Rusia caso omiso, estas dos potencias europeas terminarán declarándole la guerra en marzo de 1854. (Hace 170 años)

1833

En España, Javier de Burgos, Ministro de Fomento, aprueba un decreto mediante el cual el territorio español se divide en 49 provincias que tomarán el nombre de su capital, excepto Álava, Navarra, Guipuzcoa y Vizcaya que conservarán sus nombres. En 1927 las islas Canarias se dividirán en dos provincias (Las Palmas y Santa Cruz de Tenerife) con lo que España quedará finalmente repartida en 50 provincias que, junto a las ciudades autónomas de Ceuta y Melilla, comprenderán la totalidad del territorio español. (Hace 190 años)

1803

Aunque fue en 1800 cuando España cedió el vasto territorio de Luisiana a Francia, la ceremonia oficial de entrega no tiene lugar hasta el día de hoy, cuando la bandera española es arriada y se iza en su lugar el pabellón francés. Al tiempo que las autoridades españolas cesan su actividad, la nueva autoridad francesa toma posesión. Esta formalidad es necesaria para que los franceses entreguen Luisiana a los americanos, que se la han comprado en abril de este mismo año. Finalmente, el 20 de diciembre, se izará la enseña estadounidense en este territorio. Más tarde, esta extensa región de Luisiana se dividirá formando otros 13 estados. (Hace 220 años)

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St. Joseph, pray for us!

Taken at St. James Chapel, Montalban by Senor de Burgos 1814. 

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Events 12.27 (before 1940)

537 – The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated. 1512 – The Spanish Crown issues the Laws of Burgos, governing the conduct of settlers with regard to native Indians in the New World. 1521 – The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the peace and preaching the Apocalypse. 1655 – Second Northern War/the Deluge: Monks at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa are successful in fending off a month-long siege. 1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in North American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right. 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which allows Portugal to export wines to England on favorable trade terms. 1814 – War of 1812: The destruction of the schooner USS Carolina brings to an end Commodore Daniel Patterson's makeshift fleet, which fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans. 1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution. 1836 – The worst ever avalanche in England occurs at Lewes, Sussex, killing eight people. 1845 – Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia. 1845 – Having coined the phrase "manifest destiny" the previous July, journalist John L. O'Sullivan argued in his newspaper New York Morning News that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country. 1911 – "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress. 1918 – The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins. 1918 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine occupies Yekaterinoslav and seizes seven airplanes from the UPRAF, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet. 1922 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world. 1927 – Kern and Hammerstein's musical play Show Boat, considered to be the first true American musical play, opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway. 1929 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class". 1932 – Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City. 1935 – Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism. 1939 – The 7.8 Mw  Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed. 1939 – Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.