306 british soldiers got executed for cowardice in World War One.
The British soldiers faced a serious problem of desertion by the troops.
So people don't desert. Would you rather be shot by someone else and die honorably for your country or would you rather be shot by your own guy and die in shame? This was kind of the mentality that the old Generals whose lives are too "important" to risk tried to instill into their troops. Deserters mean more deserters, and eventually you've got an army of nothing. Therefore, you try to stop desertion at its roots. If one guy stands up to a tyrant, and another guy stands up, and then and third, and eventually a lot of guys stand up, you will probably too. Then eventually everyone (or damn close to everyone), the tyrant can do nothing, because if he puts them all to death, he is no longer the ruler of anything. "To encourage the others", as Voltaire said of the 18th-century British execution of Admiral Byng for failing to "do his utmost" in a botched action. Combat fatigue and shell-shock - forerunners of today's PTSD - were little acknowledged until late in the war. Fear of political subversion sustained a hard line as Russia's revolution and withdrawal from the war threatened to produce echoes in the west: French and Italian troops did indeed refuse to fight in 1917 and British soldiers briefly mutinied at Étaples. During the war the British executed 306, against 80,000 treated for war-related stress: all received a posthumous pardon in 2006, though their sentences were allowed to stand.
The term British Soldiers applies to all soldier of the United Kingdom, and historically all soldiers of the British Empire.
The Boston Massacre is the incident in which five soldiers were shot by British soldiers in 1770.
Over 1,100 British servicemen were killed.
The British army often executed their own soldiers in World War One for crimes such as desertion and cowardice. Often these soldiers were suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or were pacifists.
About 150,000 soldiers deserted from the German Army, many of them fled to neutral countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland. Only 18 from those caught were executed. In WW2 10,000 deserters were shot.
The British soldiers faced a serious problem of desertion by the troops.
In World War One, the executions of 306 British and Commonwealth soldiers took place. Such executions, for crimes such as desertion and cowardice, remain a source of controversy with some believing that many of those executed should be pardoned as they were suffering from what is now called shell shock. The executions, primarily of non-commissioned ranks, included 25 Canadians, 22 Irishmen and 5 New Zealanders.
In the short story Guests of the Nation, the climax occurs when the two British soldiers, Hawkins and Belcher, are executed.
Deserters would be court martialled. The trial usually ended with them being sentenced to be shot at dawn by a 12 man firing squad. In WW2 the only offence for which you could be put to death was mutiny, whereas there were several more in WW1 including cowardice, and striking a superior officer.
So people don't desert. Would you rather be shot by someone else and die honorably for your country or would you rather be shot by your own guy and die in shame? This was kind of the mentality that the old Generals whose lives are too "important" to risk tried to instill into their troops. Deserters mean more deserters, and eventually you've got an army of nothing. Therefore, you try to stop desertion at its roots. If one guy stands up to a tyrant, and another guy stands up, and then and third, and eventually a lot of guys stand up, you will probably too. Then eventually everyone (or damn close to everyone), the tyrant can do nothing, because if he puts them all to death, he is no longer the ruler of anything. "To encourage the others", as Voltaire said of the 18th-century British execution of Admiral Byng for failing to "do his utmost" in a botched action. Combat fatigue and shell-shock - forerunners of today's PTSD - were little acknowledged until late in the war. Fear of political subversion sustained a hard line as Russia's revolution and withdrawal from the war threatened to produce echoes in the west: French and Italian troops did indeed refuse to fight in 1917 and British soldiers briefly mutinied at Étaples. During the war the British executed 306, against 80,000 treated for war-related stress: all received a posthumous pardon in 2006, though their sentences were allowed to stand.
The term British Soldiers applies to all soldier of the United Kingdom, and historically all soldiers of the British Empire.
the Bostonians hated the british soldiers because they kept on tormenting them
They were very different from the British soldiers and wanted to declare independence from England.
Name given to the British soldiers by the people of Boston was the "redcoats".
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