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#1 The relationship between alcohol and war has been long and intimate. While alcohol has helped soldiers prepare for combat, it has also made them unreliable and selfdestructive. It has helped civilian populations endure wartime hardships, but it has also provoked charges that it undermines worker productivity.
#2 The importance of alcohol for war can be seen in the history of the Greeks, who were the first to mass produce and make the drink available beyond elite circles. It was used as a currency, payment for soldiers, policemen, and the workers who built the pyramids.
#3 The Romans also came to adopt the winedrinking culture of Greece, and they perfected the art of winemaking. They used wine as a strategic resource, and leaders used it to pacify disgruntled troops.
#4 The Romans spread wine through war, but they also suffered from it. The Vandals, a Germanic tribe, burned down Roman Gaul’s vineyards in AD 406, and the Vikings, who invaded Britain in the ninth century, preferred ale as well as mead.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	01 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669374619
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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The relationship between alcohol and war has been long and intimate. While alcohol has helped soldiers prepare for combat, it has also made them unreliable and self-destructive. It has helped civilian populations endure wartime hardships, but it has also provoked charges that it undermines worker productivity.

#2

The importance of alcohol for war can be seen in the history of the Greeks, who were the first to mass produce and make the drink available beyond elite circles. It was used as a currency, payment for soldiers, policemen, and the workers who built the pyramids.

#3

The Romans also came to adopt the wine-drinking culture of Greece, and they perfected the art of wine-making. They used wine as a strategic resource, and leaders used it to pacify disgruntled troops.

#4

The Romans spread wine through war, but they also suffered from it. The Vandals, a Germanic tribe, burned down Roman Gaul’s vineyards in AD 406, and the Vikings, who invaded Britain in the ninth century, preferred ale as well as mead.

#5

Alcoholic drinks in Europe were primarily wine, ale, and beer, but also mead and cider. Distilled spirits, which were a much more compact, concentrated, and durable form of alcohol, were introduced in the late sixteenth century.

#6

The Spanish conquistadores dreamed of producing wine in the new colonies, but the results were disappointing. Distilled spirits, on the other hand, proved to be much more successful. The introduction of rum led to the creation of mezcal, a distilled form of pulque, the mild indigenous alcoholic beverage made from the agave plant.

#7

The British Royal Navy was the biggest consumer of rum, and it came to be known as the sailor’s drink. It was also used to stretch rum supplies, and it made the water on board ships safer and more palatable.

#8

Rum was the lifeblood of the New England economy in the eighteenth century, and the colonies’ 159 rum distilleries depended on the ability to smuggle molasses from the French West Indies. The British authorities tolerated this for years, but after the Seven Years’ War with France, they began to crack down on smuggling.

#9

Alcohol was a huge part of the revolution, and it was not only consumed in large amounts, but where it was consumed and who was meeting there that mattered. Taverns were the favored meeting spots to plot against the Crown.

#10

While the American military was able to defeat the British in battle, their thirst for rum was a handicap. The British were well aware of the importance of rum, and they used it to keep their troops in line.

#11

The American government taxed alcohol heavily, and whiskey became the most popular drink. It was seen as a more patriotic drink than rum, which was associated with the British.

#12

The Whiskey Rebellion was a result of the tax collectors being as hated in western Pennsylvania as they were in Britain. The tax collectors were pelted with rocks and garbage, and many distillers not only refused to pay the tax, but intimidated and attacked the tax collectors.

#13

Alcohol was a key ingredient in how the West was won. It was used to displace or wipe out Indian populations, and it thoroughly annihilated them.

#14

While alcohol was used as a weapon of war, it also helped facilitate the westward expansion of the United States. It was used to keep soldiers well-supplied, and it helped keep the North and South soldiering on.

#15

Alcohol was used as the main anesthetic on both sides of the Civil War, and it was used to cope with the banality of daily life for soldiers. It was also used to fund the government.

#16

The British were better at collecting taxes closer to home than their rebellious colonies. The alcohol revenue helped to build up the state’s taxation apparatus, which was used to fund the country’s rise to become a dominant global military power.

#17

The Anglo-French war of 1689 to 1713 provided the British government with the opportunity to virtually cut off trade relations with France and eliminate the trade deficit, which was mainly due to wine imports. The political repercussions of this move would be long-lasting, with brewers and distillers pushing for high tariffs on French wine and spirits.

#18

The more Russians drank, the more money was poured into state coffers. But a drunk nation also meant a drunk army, which was not effective on the battlefield. In 1805, Napoleon’s spies informed him that the Russian army was marked by riot and intemperance, and that they spent the night before the Battle of Austerlitz in drunkenness, noise, and revelry.

#19

The French champagne industry rebounded after the Napoleonic Wars, while the Russian army continued to drown itself in vodka. Russians were fond of vodka, and none more so than the Russian soldier.

#20

The Russian army was led by commanders who drank as much as the soldiers, and they seemed more interested in the bottle than the battle. They were constantly drinking orgy-style, and it took a fortnight by military process to transfer them from the army base to the rear.

#21

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