One more point is that, and I'm obviously not defending the French soldiers.

还有一点当然我并非为法国士兵辩解什么
It's very unusual for me not to be defending la France and all things French

我很少不为法国和法国的事情辩解
but nonetheless,

然而
one of the cases that

你们可能会说
you might say total war comes before Napoleon,

在拿破仑之前全面战争就已经开始了
and this is of course the Vendée, which I alluded to the other day,

在我隐射过的Vendée的案例中
the civil war in the West.

它被称为西部内战
There you had cases of them simply razing villages,

他们将村庄夷平
and lining people up against the wall,

让人们靠墙战好
and gunning down priests, and drowning nuns,

射杀神父溺毙修女
and this extremely asocial, antisocial behavior.

等等这类极端反社会的行为
One of the things about these civil wars,

在西班牙内战中