General Géraud Réveilhac making a medal presentation in 1915. Several unsuccessful attacks had already left this part of No Man's Land strewn with French dead. A bayonet assault would begin at 5 am on March 10 against a stretch of enemy trenches that was heavily defended by machine guns and barbed wire. After two recent unsuccessful attacks, the 21st Company of the 336th Infantry Regiment (part of the 60th Infantry Division) was ordered by Général de division Géraud Réveilhac to retake positions captured by the Germans north of the village of Souain in the Marne. In March 1915, units of the French Army holding a section of the Western Front through Champagne had seen no tangible results despite two months of fighting. The events inspired the 1935 anti-war novel Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb, later adapted for film by Stanley Kubrick. The executions, which occurred in the vicinity of Souain on 17 March 1915, are considered to be the most egregious and most publicized military injustice during World War I in France. The Souain corporals affair ( French: Affaire des caporaux de Souain) was an incident where four corporals in the French Army were shot by firing squad as an example to the rest of their companies during the First World War. This website was created on July 2019 and is updated at best effort basis.The memorial to the four executed corporals at Sartilly, in Normandy Konstantinos Theofilatos is an Associate Professor of Physics in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Higher order optimization (which could be problem-specific) to be discussed in class or in homework assigments. Instead, it is purposefully attempted to just demonstrate the core ideas of the underline algorithms, leaving That is to say, the code is not always optimized having in mind efficiency of execution.įine tuning of the execution flow, while important for speed and precision, often obscures transparency at first site.
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