[DanaC]

Ha! Thanks for that. Most amusing.

One of the things that makes analysing crime during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a bit of an interpretive challenge is decoding the charges. Doubly so for military justice.

I think my favourite one is: along with being drunk and a few other regulatory charges, 'behaving in a most scandalous manner'

Closely followed by 'Taking very indecent liberties with two privates', though my amusement at that usually falters quite quickly given the appalling punishments meted out to gay men.