Professor John McCurdy

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426 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 17 Apr

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So if you're not in battle, what do you do?

Yeah.

And most of these soldiers will get up to no good, right?

They drink.

Drink is very easily accessible.

On the British side, drink is part of the rations, daily rations.

For the Americans, they have to acquire it other ways.

But

There's lots of alcohol around.

So young men getting drunk, being bored, get up to no good.

They get into fights with each other.

They get into fights with civilians.

There's quite a bit of problem caused by these armies.

Right.

And I think this is a struggle of the 18th century, as we see later.

Right.

So on the one hand, the army is bringing in chaplains.

It was morality lessons.

They're telling the men, you know, reserve yourself, save yourself.

Remember what will happen when you go home at the same time.

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