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Definition of Drumhead court-martial

1. Noun. A military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in action.

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Literary usage of Drumhead court-martial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries Upon Martial Law: With Special Reference to Its Regulation and by William Francis Finlason, Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1867)
"So in the case of Governor Wall (28 State Trials, 148), the defence being a summary trial by drumhead court-martial, Mr. Law (the late Lord Ellenborough) ..."

2. The Life of Rutherford Birchard Hayes by Charles Richard Williams (1914)
"by drumhead court-martial and shot' was turned over to General Hayes and never accounted for. The fact was that the money which had come to the scamp as ..."

3. A History of Our Own Times by Justin McCarthy (1884)
"The act which conveyed Mr. Gordon from the protection of civil law to the authority of a drumhead court-martial was grossly illegal. ..."

4. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell, James Cockcroft (1899)
"... so that no extraordinary measures of severity were necessary—but they admitted that the sentence had been pronounced by a drumhead court martial, ..."

5. Lord Milner and South Africa by Ernest Bruce Iwan-Müller (1902)
"... we consider that all rebels taken with arms in their hands should be tried by drumhead court-martial and shot without delay; that persons who have been ..."

6. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories (1861)
"We have heard of the "rough-and-ready justice of the drumhead court-martial," but how justice ever comes to bo vindicated by such a tribunal—drumhead or ..."

7. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1820)
"I saw a drumhead court-martial at Chatham. Upon those occasions, is it usual that the person who is charged before such a court- martial is called upon to ..."

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