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31: 203:, and some historical sources attribute part of Crassus' success to it. The total number of men killed through decimation is not known, but it varied on occasion between 1,000 from 10,000 men and 48–50 from a cohort of around 500 men. A specific instance saw 500 men selected by Crassus from the survivors of two legions which had broken and run in combat against the rebel slaves. They were divided into groups of ten, one of whom was chosen by lot regardless of actual behaviour in the battle. The nine remaining legionaries in each party were then forced to club their former comrade to death. The dual purpose intended was to stiffen discipline amongst the army at large and to demoralise the enemy. 396:
General Piccolomini. When they had obeyed this command, their ensigns (flags) were torn in pieces; and the general, having mentioned the causes of their degradation, and erased the regiment from the register of the imperial troops, pronounced the sentence that had been agreed upon in the council of war, condemning the colonel, captains and lieutenants to be beheaded, the ensigns (junior officers) to be hanged, the soldiers to be decimated and the survivors to be driven in disgrace out of the army.
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starting in the 17th century, the word evolved to refer to any extreme reduction in the number of a population or force, or an overall sense of destruction and ruin, not strictly in the punitive sense or to a reduction by one-tenth. Despite its history, criticism of the broader sense has been noted
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If ever these same things happen to occur among a large group of men... the officers reject the idea of bludgeoning or slaughtering all the men involved . Instead they find a solution for the situation which chooses by a lottery system sometimes five, sometimes eight, sometimes twenty of these men,
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took the form of the summary executions of individual stragglers rather than the formalized winnowing of entire detachments. Certainly one specific instance of actual decimation did occur in the Italian Army during the war, on May 26, 1916. This involved the execution of one in ten soldiers of a
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which sentenced the Madlo regiment to exemplary punishment. Six regiments, which had distinguished themselves in the battle, were assembled fully armed, and surrounded Madlo's regiment, which was severely rebuked for its cowardice and misconduct, and ordered to lay down its arms at the feet of
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Antony was furious and employed the punishment known as "decimation" on those who had lost their nerve. What he did was divide the whole lot of them into groups of ten, and then he killed one from each group, who was chosen by lot; the rest, on his orders were given barley rations instead of
372:, Colonel Madlo's cavalry regiment was the first that fled without striking a blow. This was followed by the massive flight of other cavalry units, an early turning point in the battle. It ended in a decisive victory for the Swedish Army under the command of Field Marshal 361:. The remaining troopers were decimated, one in every ten cavalrymen being hanged; the others were assembled beneath the gallows, beaten, branded and declared outlaws. Their standards were burned by an executioner after the emperor's monogram had been cut from the fabric. 311:
and other brutal punishments. According to him, punishments where the rank and file saw their comrades dying by the hands of their own brothers-in-arms could lead to a collapse of morale. Moreover, it could seriously deplete the manpower of the fighting unit.
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always calculating the number in this group with reference to the whole unit of offenders so that this group forms one-tenth of all those guilty of cowardice. And these men who are chosen by lot are bludgeoned mercilessly in the manner described above.
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As the punishment fell by lot, all soldiers in a group sentenced to decimation were potentially liable for execution, regardless of individual degrees of fault, rank, or distinction.
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in which every tenth man in a group was executed by members of his cohort. The discipline was used by senior commanders in the
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ordered the decimation of the battalion, which was accordingly formed into line and every tenth man shot.
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120-strong company of the 141st Catanzaro Infantry Brigade, which had mutinied. Officers,
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were executed after 300 men turned up to receive their discharge papers and back pay.
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Thompson, G, 1869, The War in Paraguay, London: Longmans Green and Co., pp.171-172
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gives one of the first descriptions of the practice in the early 3rd century BC:
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and beheaded, while of the remainder, one in ten was chosen by lot and executed.
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in AD 20. G.R. Watson notes that "its appeal was to those obsessed with
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records that Lucius Apronius used decimation to punish a full cohort of the
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The earliest documented decimation occurred in 471 BC during the
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Decimation can be also used to punish the enemy. In 1918, during the
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In 1914, in France, there was a case in which a company of Tunisian
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and non-mutinying soldiers had been killed during the outbreak.
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and soldiers who had cast away their weapons were individually
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allegedly applied decimation to underperforming units during
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Decimation was still being practised during the time of the
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outside the fortified security of the camp for some time.
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was first used in English to mean a tax of one-tenth (or
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Ninety men (chosen by rolling dice) were executed at
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Decimation (Roman Army)

William Hogarth
the military
ancient Rome
Latin
military discipline
Roman army
capital offences
cowardice
mutiny
desertion
insubordination
legions
cohort
sortition
stoning
clubbing
stabbing
bivouac
Roman Republic
Volsci
Livy
Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis
centurions
standard-bearers
scourged
Polybius
Alexander the Great
Marcus Licinius Crassus

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