Court-martial three types: Special, Summary, and General. In Herman Melville's novella "Billy Budd" (first published 1924), the title character is convicted at a drumhead court-martial of striking and killing his superior officer on board HMS "Indomitable", is sentenced to death, and is hanged. The novella has been adapted for the stage, film and television; notably in Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera "Billy Budd". In C. S. Forester's 1938 novel "Flying Colours", Captain Horatio Hornblower is court-martialed for the loss of HMS "Sutherland". He is "most honourably acquitted". Court-martial A court-martial or court martial (plural "courts-martial" or "courts martial", as "martial" is a
Opera in Canada Tragical Tale of the Tricky Troubadour; or The Truant Tracked" (1886) that satirically adapted Verdi's "Il Trovatore". A parody based on Canadian politics of that time as well as on Arthur Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" was William Harry Fuller's "HMS Parliament, or, The Lady Who Loved a Government Clerk" (1879). Other Canadian operas written during the nineteenth century include Frederick W. Mills's "Maire of St Brieux" (1875), Susie Frances Harrisons's three-act comic opera "Pipandour" (1884) and Arthur Clappé's "Canada’s Welcome: A Masque" (1897). All of which had librettos written by F.A. Dixon. Arthur Clappé's opera was written for thirteen soloists representing