As a child, I read a long time ago in some “1001 amazing facts” fact book that General Burgoyne, of revolutionary war fame, disciplined his troops only by having them, if they misbehaved, wear their jackets inside out. Perhaps as a humane method instead of whipping.
However, the book noted, his troops were the most well-behaved of any in the war. Left unstated, but by implication, because of the social-pressure method worked better than flogging.
Is this ‘factoid’ true? I can’t find anything about it and read no other source that mentions it. I wish I remembered the name of the book; it was filled with small paragraph sized “facts” with drawings every so often and was a bigger hardback volume.
