You will note that I replied to your comment above.

However I replied in the Christian Persecution thread.

Not exactly perfect myself sometimes. Strange but true.

Disagreeing with commentators doesn't make you wrong on the basis they are right. Mainly because their accounts, or at least the parts I have read thanks to your links, gloss over the callous disregard and wicked stupidity of the senior officers who sacrificed men in their thousands each day for a token land grab.

You are making the mistake of judging the attitude of men then with the education and mindsets of today.

So are those historians who should know better.