Peasants resisted vaccination fearing it marked sons for conscription.
Evidence
This, however, does not mean that the French peasants accepted service in the colors without hesitation. Indeed, “for many Frenchmen the service demanded by the government quickly assumed the guise of a new and unwelcome corvée, a tax in blood to a distant and impersonal master, imposed in the name of a national cause that they understood only in the dimmest terms.” “Nationalism, the dream of ‘la grande nation’ so dear to the historians of the First Empire, had little appeal to those who were called on to fight in its name.” — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1364 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Egyptian peasants overwhelmingly resisted conscription despite ideological appeals, via open rebellion; Egyptian villagers resisted vaccination fearing it marked children for conscription; French peasants resisted Revolutionary conscription as an unwelcome tax in blood — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1364
Related
- French peasants resisted Revolutionary conscription as an unwelcome tax in blood (similarity 0.90)
- Egyptian peasants saw vaccination as a conscription mark and resisted violently (similarity 0.86)
- French peasants experienced conscription as an unwelcome blood tax to a distant, impersonal master. (similarity 0.85)
- Egyptian peasants overwhelmingly resisted conscription despite ideological appeals, via open rebellion (similarity 0.83)
- Egyptian villagers resisted vaccination fearing it marked children for conscription (similarity 0.83)
- Egyptian peasants saw no incentive to volunteer for military service at all (similarity 0.81)
- Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into the modern army (similarity 0.81)
- Egyptian peasants blinded and mutilated themselves to evade conscription. (similarity 0.81)
- Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army. (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian peasants experienced conscription as oppressive taxation rather than patriotic service (similarity 0.80)
- Egyptian peasants openly rebelled against Muhammad Ali’s conscription policies (similarity 0.79)
- Egyptian peasants rejected religious justifications for army service (similarity 0.79)
- Egyptian peasants universally hated conscription into Mehmed Ali’s army (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- French peasants resisted Revolutionary conscription as an unwelcome tax in blood
#corroborates(0.70) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1364