Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second-in-command, but the commander in chief never warmed to his quirky personality. It was Washington who stormed up to Lee at the battle of Monmouth, accused him of making an unnecessary, disorderly, and shameful retreat.† and made the charge substantially stick in a court-martial. Thirty months after the Adams accolade, Lee was suspended from the army and later died in disgrace...
TIME'S April 23 assertion that Douglas MacArthur was the only member of the Billy Mitchell court-martial who voted "not guilty" is one of those interesting little coincidences that must make the lives of your editorial researchers so thrilling...
However, in view of the oath that every member of a court-martial takes-not to "disclose or discover the vote or opinion of any members of the court-martial upon . . . the findings or sentence"-I am very curious as to the source of your information...
Lincoln's appointment of General Fremont to command the Department of the West was most popular ... On Aug. 30, 1861, Fremont, without consulting the President, issued an astonishing, unauthorized order. It declared martial law throughout Missouri, ordered the confiscation of the property of the rebels [and] freed all slaves...
...after on-the-spot courts-martial, R.O.K. soldiers executed 187 alleged Communist collaborators at Shinwon, a village 40 miles southwest of Taegu. The legalized massacre was hushed up for a month, then a National Assembly committee investigated. Last week, President Syngman Rhee published the committee's report, took appropriate action. He fired his Minister of Defense, Sihn Sung Mo, Home Affairs, Chough Byong Ok, and Justice, Kim Jeum Yin, for their "responsibility" in the affair...