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The [[MGM]] film ''[[Paths of Glory]]'', 1957, directed by [[Stanley Kubrick]] and starring [[Kirk Douglas]] is a story of French military decimation in World War I, based on the infamous ''[[Souain corporals affair]]'', in which four French soldiers of the 10e Compagnie of 8 Battalion of the Régiment Mixte de Tirailleurs Algériens were executed for mutiny. During the retreat at the beginning of the war these French-African soldiers refused an order to attack. They were shot on 15 December 1914 near Zillebeeke in Flanders. Their families sued, and while the executions were ruled unfair, two of the families received one [[franc]] each, while the other two received nothing.

The [[MGM]] film ''[[Paths of Glory]]'', 1957, directed by [[Stanley Kubrick]] and starring [[Kirk Douglas]] is a story of French military decimation in World War I, based on the infamous ''[[Souain corporals affair]]'', in which four French soldiers of the 10e Compagnie of 8 Battalion of the Régiment Mixte de Tirailleurs Algériens were executed for mutiny. During the retreat at the beginning of the war these French-African soldiers refused an order to attack. They were shot on 15 December 1914 near Zillebeeke in Flanders. Their families sued, and while the executions were ruled unfair, two of the families received one [[franc]] each, while the other two received nothing.

More generally, ''to [[decimate]]'' is to destroy or kill a large proportion of a (human or animal) population or land or property.  

More generally, ''to [[decimate]]'' is to destroy or kill a large proportion of a (human or animal) population, also land or property.  

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