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Great options for this WE.
I could not resist the chance to tell the story of this place I pass by every day. It gives me the chills every single time just to imagine the horror 208 years ago.
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Great content Hendry, thanks for taking the time.
Thank you, mate, for the chance and encouragement. Most references to this episode of our history come from a novel by author Francisco Herrera Luque. Luque's novel Boves, the Urogallo (cock), which describes the incident in gruesome fictionalized details, became so popular that most people of my generation thought that was just fiction. No history text book mentions it. They only romantized the war of independence as a feat carried out by impeccably looking heroes.
The events have been narrated by many historians of the time and after, as well as by some chronicles, even though most accounts disagree on details, but somehow this has been kept away from school discussions or analysis.
War continues to be pictured as an exciting, heroic, and usually necessary thing to consolidate nationhood, principles, and character.