[18] See even the Annual Register, lvi. 184, for a denunciation of this proceeding.
[19] Sismondi’s Hist. des Français, xxv.
[20] Edwards’s Germans in France, 171.
[21] Lieut-Col. Charras, La Campagne de 1815, i. 211, ii. 88.
[22] Woolsey’s International Law, p. 223.
[23] Cf. lib. xii. 81, and xiii. 25, 26; quoted by Grotius, iii. xi. xiii.
[24] iii. 41.
[25] Cambridge Essays, 1855, ‘Limitations to Severity in War,’ by C. Buxton.
[26] See Raumer’s Geschichte Europa’s, iii. 509-603, if any doubt is felt about the fact.
[27] General Order of October 9, 1813. Compare those of May 29, 1809, March 25, 1810, June 10, 1812, and July 9, 1813.