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3 unusual facts about deserter


Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp

"Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp" is the second single from Mercury Rev's fourth studio album, Deserter's Songs.

Goddess on a Hiway

"Goddess on a Hiway" is the first single from Mercury Rev's fourth studio album, Deserter's Songs.

Opus 40

The band Mercury Rev recorded "Opus 40", a song about the site, on their 1998 album Deserter's Songs.


Charles Frazier

It traces the journey of Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the American Civil War.

Eugene B. Van Camp

Van Camp then went absent without leave on Nov. 1, 1862 and was arrested in Berlin, Maryland as a deserter.

Fère-en-Tardenois

It contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I including the poet, Joyce Kilmer and, until 1987, Eddie Slovik, a deserter and the first American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.

James Fegan

In March 1868, while escorting a powder train en route from Fort Harker to Fort Dodge, Kansas, he single-handedly prevented a mob from blowing up the train to free an army deserter.

Jean de Poltrot

Pretending to be a deserter, he gained admission to the camp of the Catholic army that was besieging Orléans.

Karl Wilhelm von Willisen

He lived in Teutschenthal near Halle (Saale), where he was captured as a deserter in 1811 and imprisoned at Kassel.

Lawrence Hill

In 2007, Hill collaborated with former US-Army soldier (now deserter) Joshua Key to write Key's account of the Iraq War.

His non-fiction books are: Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians (1993), Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (1996), Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (2001), and The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, with Joshua Key (2007).

Nuremberg principles

Nuremberg Principle IV, and its reference to an individual’s responsibility, was also at issue in Canada in the case of Hinzman v. Canada. Jeremy Hinzman was a U.S. Army deserter who claimed refugee status in Canada as a conscientious objector, one of many Iraq War resisters.

Superior orders

Nuremberg Principle IV, and its reference to an individual’s responsibility, was at issue in Canada in the case of Hinzman v. Canada. Jeremy Hinzman was a U.S. Army deserter who claimed refugee status in Canada as a conscientious objector, one of many Iraq War resisters.

Tanacharison

A third and accurate account of the Jumonville Glen encounter was told to Jumonville's half-brother, Captain Louis Coulon de Villiers, by a deserter at the mouth of Redstone Creek during his expedition to avenge his brother's murder.

The Highway

Fairport Convention: Ratcliff Highway is referred to in their song "The Deserter" on the 1969 LP Liege and Lief.

Thomas ap Catesby Jones

In 1843, Jones returned a young deserter, Herman Melville, from the Sandwich Islands to the United States.

Worrals

In Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, MI5 picked her to lead an incarnation of the League as replacement for deserter Mina Murray, as well as to draw female attention to the military.


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