Alfred Dreyfus22 December 1894
Sentenced to transportation for life & expulsion from the army & loss of rank. Found guilty of passing papers to a foreign power
France · Warfare / Military. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Sentenced to transportation for life & expulsion from the army & loss of rank. Found guilty of passing papers to a foreign power
Subject to ritual degradation on the parade ground of the Military Academy
Emile Zola is imprisoned for his letter Jaccuse in which he accused the French Government of anti-Semitism and the wrongful imprisonment of Army Captain Alfred Dreyfus
Zola convinces the public that papers used in Dreyfusss trial were forged. The Minister for War resigns after the Dreyfuss trial is reopened. The Cabinet decides to retry Dreyfuss
Found guilty for a 2nd time, the court martial is commuted to 10 yrs imprisonment
The Supreme Court proclaims Dreyfusss innocence, he is reinstated in the army
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