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Cannon fodder, the Glossary

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Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for combatants who are regarded or treated by government or military command as expendable in the face of enemy fire.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 35 relations: Cannon, Charge of the Light Brigade, Combatant, Conscription, Cynicism (contemporary), Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Fodder, Forlorn hope, François-René de Chateaubriand, Gunpowder, Hendrik Conscience, Henry IV, Part 1, Human shield, Human wave attack, Infantry, Joan Littlewood, John Falstaff, Kamikaze, Livestock, Mass grave, Napoleon, National Football League, Oh, What a Lovely War!, Penal military unit, Redshirt (stock character), Sacrificial lamb, Score Media and Gaming, Shock troops, Suicide attack, Theatre Workshop, Trench warfare, Wikisource, William Shakespeare, World War I, Yahoo! Search.

  2. François-René de Chateaubriand
  3. Metaphors referring to war and violence
  4. Military personnel

Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry.

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Combatant

Combatant is the legal status of a person entitled to directly participate in hostilities during an armed conflict, and may be intentionally targeted by an adverse party for their participation in the armed conflict.

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Conscription

Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.

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Cynicism (contemporary)

Cynicism is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of the motives of others.

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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Fodder

Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

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Forlorn hope

A forlorn hope is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the vanguard in a military operation, such as a suicidal assault through the kill zone of a defended position, or the first men to climb a scaling ladder against a defended fortification, or a rearguard, to be expended to save a retreating army, where the risk of casualties is high.

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François-René de Chateaubriand

François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the nineteenth century.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hendrik Conscience

Henri (Hendrik) Conscience (3 December 1812 – 10 September 1883) was a Belgian author.

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Henry IV, Part 1

Henry IV, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry IV) is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written not later than 1597.

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Human shield

A human shield is a non-combatant (or a group of non-combatants) who either volunteers or is forced to shield a legitimate military target in order to deter the enemy from attacking it.

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Human wave attack

A human wave attack, also known as a human sea attack, is an offensive infantry tactic in which an attacker conducts an unprotected frontal assault with densely concentrated infantry formations against the enemy line, intended to overrun and overwhelm the defenders by engaging in melee combat.

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Infantry

Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.

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Joan Littlewood

Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop.

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John Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth.

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Kamikaze

, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional air attacks.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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Oh, What a Lovely War!

Oh, What a Lovely War! is an epic musical developed by Joan Littlewood and her ensemble at the Theatre Workshop in 1963.

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Penal military unit

A penal military unit, also known as a penal formation, disciplinary unit, or just penal unit (usually named for their formation and size, such as penal battalion for battalions, penal regiment for regiments, penal company for companies, etc.), is a military formation consisting of convicts mobilized for military service.

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Redshirt (stock character)

A "redshirt" is a stock character in fiction who dies soon after being introduced.

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Sacrificial lamb

A sacrificial lamb is a metaphorical reference to a person or animal sacrificed for the common good.

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Score Media and Gaming Inc., doing business as theScore, is a Canadian digital media company based in Toronto.

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Shock troops

Shock troops or assault troops are special formations created to lead military attacks.

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Suicide attack

A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack.

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Theatre Workshop

Theatre Workshop is a theatre group whose long-serving director was Joan Littlewood.

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Trench warfare

Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.

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Wikisource

Wikisource is an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results.

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See also

François-René de Chateaubriand

Metaphors referring to war and violence

Military personnel

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_fodder

Also known as Cannon-fodder, Cannonfodder.