[28] Vattel, iii. ix. 165.
[29] Sir W. Napier (Peninsular War, ii. 322) says of the proceeding that it was ‘politic indeed, yet scarcely to be admitted within the pale of civilised warfare.’ It occurred in May 1810.
[30] Bluntschli’s Modernes Völkerrecht, art. 573.
[31] For the character of modern war see the account of the Franco-German war in the Quarterly Review for April 1871.
[32] Halleck, ii. 22.
[33] Vehse’s Austria, i. 369. Yet, as usual on such occasions, the excesses were committed in the teeth of Tilly’s efforts to oppose them.
‘Imperavit Tillius a devictorum cædibus et corporum castimonia abstinerent, quod imperium a quibusdam furentibus male servatum annales aliqui fuere conquesti.’—Adlzreiter’s Annales Boicæ Gentis, Part iii. l. 16, c. 38.
[34] Battles in the Peninsular War, 181, 182.
[35] Ibid. 396.
[36] Foxe’s Actes and Monuments, iii. 52.