What is "court-martialled"

Usage examples of "court-martialled".

If you are actually court-martialled I can also guarantee that you won't be placed under restraint even during the trial.

Brandt that he expected him back in the field within twenty-four hours, or he would have him court-martialled on a variety of charges.

Smith continued: 'Colonel Wyatt-Turner, you will be court-martialled this afternoon, sentenced, removed to the Tower then taken out, blindfolded and shot at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

You further claim that you were caught, court-martialled and were awaiting the confirmation of your death sentence.

You'd be court-martialled, cashiered and then, by the stipulations of the Geneva Conventions, face a firing squad.

But I've also seen him dirty and stinking and exhausted, seen him fighting Napoleon's cavalrymen with only a knife, seen him unjustly court-martialled on a trumped-up charge of cowardice .

That horrible man who had Nicholas court-martialled at Bastia after he had rescued me was the protege of one of them, but luckily Commodore Nelson knew all about that.

The men should have been court-martialled, and if a court had found them guilty, as it certainly would have done, they would have been hanged, so they were grateful for the floggings.

He had court-martialled one man for attempted desertion and then freed another.

For my choice was either to use my identoplate and be court-martialled or use the counterfeit money I carried and be executed!

If I overdrew my account I would probably be court-martialled, even cashiered!

Renouf knew it could bode ill for the two bomb ketches, because commanding officers had been court-martialled for much less.

The captain had been court-martialled as soon as the French exchanged him, and dismissed the service.

You could ignore the precise wording and act in the spirit, though if you failed you were court-martialled on the precise wording.

If she sprang a leak and sank because the pumps became blocked with rubbish, ran on a reef after the master made a mistake or the current ran faster or slower than expected, lost a mast when rigging failed or wood rotted, was sunk after attacking an enemy too powerful, or ran away when admirals considered she should have stayed and fought - all these were the captain's responsibility: he was the person court-martialled even though the real fault could lie with dozens of other men, ranging from the officers of the deck to a seaman heaving the lead and calling out a wrong sounding.