Campaign against flogging in the British Army

Flogging of troops by the British Army in India - scene at the Spur Battery, Chatham Lines, where the regiment and sometimes the whole garrison is drawn up in the form of a square, to witness the prisoner, stripped to the waist and pinioned to the triangle, being lashed with a cat of nine tails by several drummers in succession. The drum major on the left has the job of counting the number of lashes. A soldier on the right has fainted at the sight

1844 Battery Brutal Brutality Chatham Cruel Cruelty Fainted Flogging Garrison Lashed Spur Tails

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