Military Manners and Customs
Despatches, iii. 302, June 17, 1809.
298
Compare also Despatches, iv. 457; v. 583, 704, 5.
299
China War, 225.
300
Scott’s British Army, ii. 411.
301
Wellington’s Despatches, v. 705.
302
See Windham’s Speech in the House of Commons. April 3, 1806.
303
Ibid.
304
P. 122.
305
Fleming, 109.
306
Preface to b. iii. ‘Ergo qui desiderat pacem, præparet bellum.’
307
Lord Wolseley’s Soldier’s Pocket Book, 5.
308
Arbousset’s Exploratory Tour, 397-9.
309
Livy, xl. 6.
310
Iliad, vi. 266-8; and comp. Æneid, ii. 717-20.
311
Casalis’s Basutos, 258.
312
Victor Hugo’s L’Ane, 124.
313
Baillat’s Vie de Descartes, i. 41.
314
ii. 25, 9, 1. ‘Tanto carnifice detestabiliores quanto pejus est sine causâ quam ex causâ occidere.’
315
Ibid. 2. ‘Nullum vitæ genus est improbius quam eorum qui sine causæ respectu mercede conducti militant, et quibus ibi fas ubi plurima merces.’ Both the sentiment and the expression are borrowed from Lucan’s Pharsalia, x. 408: ‘Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur Venalesque manus; ibi fas ubi plurima merces.’
316
364.
317
Potter’s Greek Antiquities, ii. 9.
318
Henry’s Britain, iii. 5, 1; Grose i. 56.
319
Grose, i. 58.
320
Ibid., i. 67.
321
Parliamentary Debates, May 24, 1756.
322
Sir S. Scott’s British Army, ii. 333.
323
N. Bacon’s Notes to Selden’s Laws, ii. 60.
324
Candide, c. xx.
325
Alison’s Europe, vi. 491.
326
Life of Sir C. Napier, i. 77.
327
Military Law, 17.
328
Keppel’s Life, by T. Keppel, ii. 1.
329
Indian Expedition, ix.
330
Livy, 39, 3; 42, 21; 43, 5.
331
Livy, xlv. 22. ‘Certe quidem vos estis Romani, qui ideo felicia bella vestra esse, quia justa sint, præ vobis fertis, nec tam exitu eorum, quod vincatis, quam principiis quod non sine causâ suscipiatis, gloriamini.’
332
De Civitate Dei, iv. 4 and 6.
333
Arbre des Batailles, quoted in Kennedy’s Influence of Christianity on International Law.
334
Petitot, xvi. 137.
335
III. 65. ‘Cavendo ne metuant, homines metuendos ultro se efficiunt, et injuriam ab nobis repulsam, tamquam aut facere aut pati necesse sit, injungimus aliis.’
68
Nicolas, ii. 341.
69
Nicolas, ii. 405.
