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The memorial to the four executed corporals at Sartilly, in Normandy. The Souain corporals affair (; French: Affaire des caporaux de Souain) was an incident where four corporals in the French Army were shot by firing squad as an example to the rest of their companies during the First World War.
On 9 December 1915 at Souain, a former battlefield with rough terrain and trenches, and in the presence of General Philippe Pétain, a prototype armoured vehicle motorized with a Baby Holt caterpillar was successfully tested. [3] [4] [5] It is also known for the Souain corporals affair, 17 March 1915.
Souain corporals affair. In March 1915, after two attempts to take a strong German position near Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus had failed, he ordered the 21st company of the 336th Infantry Regiment to make a bayonet charge against the position. But before the attack began, a preceding French barrage shelled their own side's trenches.
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Paths of Glory is a 1935 war novel by Humphrey Cobb.Set during the World War I, the story tells of the French 181st company, which is sent by the general's order to carry out a reckless attack in no man's land with the purpose to take the strategically important "Pimple", and how the failure is covered up by court martialing "war criminals" for cowardice.
The monument to the four corporals shot at Souain in 1915 In March 1915, four corporals of the 21st Company of the 336th Regiment of Infantry – Louis Girard, Lucien Lechat, Louis Lefoulon et Théophile Maupas – were tried for mutiny and executed by firing squad. In his last letter to his wife, Maupas wrote "Je n'ai rien à me reprocher, je ...
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Died: General Géraud Réveilhac, 86, French Army officer relieved of command during World War One for the "Souain corporals affair", his order for the execution of four corporals randomly selected from 24 in 1915.