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    tomholmberg
    Jun 15, 2021

    British heroic fortitude at Waterloo

    in Waterloo Remembered

    Military surgery as national romance: the memory of British heroic fortitude at Waterloo

    James Kennaway

    War & Society Volume 39, 2020 - Issue 2 Pages 77-92


    Abstract


    This paper shows the ways that tales of stoicism during surgery at the Battle of Waterloo came to be a significant part of the ideological framework of Romantic Militarism. Celebrating the killing of enemies clashed with ideals of politeness, but hailing a soldier’s powers of endurance in surgery was an acceptable way of extolling courage, framing lived experience of agony into narratives of exalted pain, masculine fortitude and quasi-religious patriotic feeling. In Britain, an extensive discourse emerged about the supposed Britishness of surgical sangfroid at Waterloo, providing a narrative of national superiority in the decades of imperial expansion that followed.


    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07292473.2020.1741771


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