Significados de drumhead court em inglês

The possibility of being drumhead court-martialled and shot might not be remote.

A drumhead court-martial is a hurried trial held in camp.

Many militia officers were murdered, and many militiamen were executed by drumhead court martial.

Summary procedure made it easy to decide that the sentence of drumhead court-martial was death.

The drumhead court-martial which followed was brief and formal.

A drumhead court martial was held on the spot, and the verdict was a foregone conclusion.

For this act, he was tried by a " drumhead court martial" and sentenced to die.

But for British magnanimity a drumhead court-martial should have taken the place of the hospitality of the Ceylon planters.

They accused the negro of treachery and hung him from the nearest limb without the formality of a drumhead court martial.

A drumhead court-martial might have seemed tedious and technical in comparison with the sharp brevity of the trials under the ominous cottonwoods.

Captain Archer says that I nearly spoiled all their plans, and that I deserved to be tried by a drumhead court-martial and shot.

Captain Archer says that I nearly spoiled all their plans, and that I deserved to be tried by a drumhead court-trial and shot.

As it was, the French held a drumhead court martial a little later, and all three of the fellows-well ,youcan fill in the rest.

A number of the worst desperadoes are tried by a yet more summary process than a drumhead court martial, "strung up," and buried ignominiously.

So they contended, and both were brought before the drumhead Court Martial.

Drumhead court martial was their portion, and military execution their end.