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Sorry, "dutch strategy" because the good burghers of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, etc. realised that although sailors have deplorable* morals, the burgher's prosperity
by 082349872349872 2y ago
Sorry, "dutch strategy" because the good burghers of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, etc. realised that although sailors have deplorable* morals, the burgher's prosperity depended upon having many sailors transiently around, so the burgher's solution was to create neighbourhoods catering to vice, with the idea that it would be tolerated there, and specifically there — far from the "good" neighbourhoods where their silk-skirted patent-leather-shod daughters hung out.
* we've already touched upon LaSalle(?)'s riposte to Bonaparte, right?
- gsf_emergency 2y agoHaha first stab was closer then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Wallen#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Wallen#History* I hear that it's still a question of which came first, De Oude Kerk or De Wallen *CMI gets a mention, it's where LaSalle would have been practically deployed as a direct commissar of the Man? Recall also a protodiscussion of standardization of artillery in the revolutionary army vs navy?
- 082349872349872 2y agoexcellent! "This suited everyone including the authorities." (now I'll have to check to see if health checks occurred under the ancien regime, or if Bonaparte introduced them here as well)
- 082349872349872 2y agodirect commissar: yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41947667 odd, the coastal artillery seems to have been organisationally army but supplied and staffed by navy...