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Re:The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers... by MarcScott on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:19AM (#20490083)
At Agincourt the prisoners that were executed were all noblemen or landed knights. The custom was for these prisoners to be taken, because they could be ransomed back to their wealthy families. It was a shocking event because it broke the conventions of the times.

It would have been very unlikely that common men would have ever been taken prisoner. They'd have just been slaughtered on the battlefield, if they did not run away.

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Re:The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers... by bryanrasmussen on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:36AM (#20490114)
operative term being if they did not run away I think.

At any rate the breaking the conventions of the times is the thing that draws a mention, in the same way that a man biting a dog does.

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