Understanding Courts-Martial and Military Justice Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

future Confederate President Jefferson Davis (pictured) was among the participants in the Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy on 24–25 December 1826, but escaped court-martial.

in the midst of battle, Joseph W. Revere (pictured), grandson of Paul Revere, apparently overwhelmed by news of his new command, rode to his men and yelled "Rearward!", causing him to be court-martialled.

the captain of the Italian submarine who misidentified patrol boat USS PC-496 for a destroyer and torpedoed her was court-martialed for "wasting" a torpedo on such a small ship.

the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction, the first criminal court in Australia under British rule, operated more like a court-martial than a court of law.

an Anglo-Allied army of 23,000 men failed to capture the Spanish port of Tarragona from a small Franco-Italian force of 1,600 during the Peninsular War, sending the losing general to a court-martial afterwards.

after the Siege of Boonesborough in the American Revolutionary War, Daniel Boone (pictured) was court-martialed.

Royal Navy captain Kenneth Dewar was controversially court-martialled in 1928 for criticising his flag officer, an event the press described as a mutiny.

MacGillivray Milne was appointed Governor of American Samoa less than two years after having been court-martialed.

Captain Austin M. Knight was court-martialed for allowing the USS Puritan to sink, but nevertheless became a four-star admiral whose textbook Modern Seamanship was a standard shiphandling reference for over eight decades.

after failing to engage two French warships, Captain Savage Mostyn demanded that he be tried by court-martial.

Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge (pictured) was court-martialled for his failure to successfully engage the German warships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau.

Understanding Courts-Martial and Military Justice

1 Courts-martial have universal ________ over active duty military personnel, subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

2 Regulations for the ________ are found in the Queen's Regulations and Orders.

3 Courts martial have the authority to try a wide range of military offences, many of which closely resemble civilian crimes like ________, theft or perjury.

4 Some countries, however, have no court-martial in time of peace: this is the case in ________ and Germany for example where civil courts are used instead.

5 Macomb, Alexander, A Treatise on ________, and Courts-Martial as Practiced in the United States.

6 The members of the court decide the facts of the case, like a ________ and, after conviction, vote on sentence along with the judge advocate.

7 The Court generally comprises a ________ and between three and seven warrant officers and commissioned officers.

8 This panel decides questions of ________ as allowed by law, unless the accused chooses to be tried by judge alone, in which case the judge will resolve questions of law and questions of fact.

9 ________ was abolished generally in 1976, and for military offences in 1998; although the last military execution was in 1958.

10 The ________ requires that POWs who are on trial for war crimes be subject to the same procedures as would be the holding army's own soldiers.

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