Our 900th post!!! In the English Civil Wars, military justice was often rough justice - a musketeer

Our 900th post!!! In the English Civil Wars, military justice was often rough justice - a musketeer is whipped with knotted rope by his compatriots for swearing illegal oaths and gambling..In April 1643, Oliver Cromwell had two deserters from his own cavalry troop whipped in the marketplace at Huntingdon and turned away as ‘renegadoes’, and the idea of military discipline could be an alien concept to the hastily cobbled-together armies of the civil war, which were often made up as much by society’s undesirables as they were motivated soldiers. Even their officers could be powerless to stop them. At Adwalton Moor on 29 June 1643, Sir Thomas Fairfax watched as four of his own soldiers plundered the corpse of the Royalist Colonel George Heron in the midst of battle, but he recorded with satisfaction their death from an enemy cannon-shot..On 9 November 1642, Parliament laid down 'The Laws and Ordinances of War established for the better conduct of the Army’. This military code forbade everything from duelling to theft, from killing a surrendering enemy to 'pillaging without licence’.. Carl Pedley.#whip #whipping #discipline #punishment #army #soldiers #photoreenactment #reenactment #reenactors #reenacting #reenactorstyle #reenactorslife #reenactorsofinstagram #reenactmentphotography #livinghistory #history #photohistory #historicalreenactment #17thcentury #sealedknot #dailyphoto #photoaday #photooftheday #photoadaychallenge #englishcivilwar #instadailyhttps://www.instagram.com/p/B_lVtiWnex-/?igshid=ml82pnf20tpk -- source link

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