Comments on: 1915: Four French Corporals, for cowardice http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:19:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ExecutedToday.com » 1914: Regiment Mixte de Tirailleurs decimated http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-3233 ExecutedToday.com » 1914: Regiment Mixte de Tirailleurs decimated Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:09:11 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-3233 [...] the French military selecting randomly for salutary executions is used in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory where one officer, charged with providing an enlisted man for trial, simply has them all draw [...] [...] the French military selecting randomly for salutary executions is used in Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory where one officer, charged with providing an enlisted man for trial, simply has them all draw [...]

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » Seven Generic Halloween Costumes You Can Spice Up With an Execution Story http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-1924 ExecutedToday.com » Seven Generic Halloween Costumes You Can Spice Up With an Execution Story Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:19:31 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-1924 [...] More formally equipped modern-ish choices of various different lands include Francisco Caamano, Breaker Morant, Mikhael Tukhachevsky, Claus von Stauffenberg, Dmytro Bilinchuk, Emil August Fieldorf, and Theophile Maupas et al. [...] [...] More formally equipped modern-ish choices of various different lands include Francisco Caamano, Breaker Morant, Mikhael Tukhachevsky, Claus von Stauffenberg, Dmytro Bilinchuk, Emil August Fieldorf, and Theophile Maupas et al. [...]

]]> By: deadatom http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-1756 deadatom Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:08:36 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-1756 hey jim...way to make light about heroes who refused to let thier countrymen just become another rotting corpse in no mans land.. i guess you think that bonzai charges are something sane people would do... ww1 was a war where technologies amd massmedia had been ramped up from anyother war 10 fold... yet the tactics and strats where the same ones napolean used some 100 years before. all that mattered was a numbers saturation by rushing headlong and hoping enough of youre men survived to overrun the other side... that tactic stopped working due to the machine gun but the old brass just kept trying rushing over and over..but i guess the term "the defintion of insanity is trying something over and over expecting a different outcome" does not apply to you... i guess instead you would have rather they have led thier troops to a certain death then to refuse and know that they would face a certain death in hopes to save thier brothers and to protest that suicidal and failed tactic... but whatever... ps my grammar sucks i recognize that.. hey jim…way to make light about heroes who refused to let thier countrymen just become another rotting corpse in no mans land.. i guess you think that bonzai charges are something sane people would do…
ww1 was a war where technologies amd massmedia had been ramped up from anyother war 10 fold… yet the tactics and strats where the same ones napolean used some 100 years before. all that mattered was a numbers saturation by rushing headlong and hoping enough of youre men survived to overrun the other side… that tactic stopped working due to the machine gun but the old brass just kept trying rushing over and over..but i guess the term “the defintion of insanity is trying something over and over expecting a different outcome” does not apply to you… i guess instead you would have rather they have led thier troops to a certain death then to refuse and know that they would face a certain death in hopes to save thier brothers and to protest that suicidal and failed tactic… but whatever…

ps my grammar sucks i recognize that..

]]> By: ExecutedToday.com » 1915: Nurse Edith Cavell, “patriotism is not enough” http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-1745 ExecutedToday.com » 1915: Nurse Edith Cavell, “patriotism is not enough” Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:11:06 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-1745 [...] So naturally, she immediately became the Entente’s bloody banner of the barbarous Hun, helping dramatically ramp up recruitment for the other team’s set of moral cretins. [...] [...] So naturally, she immediately became the Entente’s bloody banner of the barbarous Hun, helping dramatically ramp up recruitment for the other team’s set of moral cretins. [...]

]]> By: Jim McCord http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-779 Jim McCord Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:16:34 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/17/1915-french-corporals-maupas-lefoulon-girard-lechat/#comment-779 Imagine that.The French not wanting to fight;classic. Imagine that.The French not wanting to fight;classic.

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