Maritime WarfareW. Ridgway, 1878 - 119 Seiten |
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Seite 72 - s'engagent à porter cette Déclaration à la " connaissance des Etats qui n'ont pas été appelés " à participer au Congrès de Paris, et à les inviter " à y accéder. " Convaincus que les maximes qu'ils viennent de " proclamer ne sauraient être accueillies qu'avec " gratitude par le monde entier, les
Seite 116 - before any commission of letters of marque and reprisal shall be issued, the owner or owners of the ship or vessel for which the same shall be requested by the commander for the time being, shall give bond to the United States with at least two responsible sureties, not interested in such vessel in the penal sum of
Seite 107 - Republic, so that as well our fleets and ships as also all other ships and vessels that shall be commissionated by letters of marque and general reprisals or otherwise shall and may lawfully apprehend, seize and take the ships, vessels and goods belonging to the French
Seite 113 - or means whatsoever touching or concerning the designs of the enemy, or any of their fleets, ships, vessels, or parties, and of the stations, sea-ports, and places, and of their intents therein; and of what ships or vessels of the enemy bound out or home, or where cruising, as they shall hear of; and of
Seite 55 - is war? It is simply a contest between nations " of trying which can do the other most harm. " Who carries on the war? Armies are formed " and navies are manned by individuals. How is " a battle gained? By the death of individuals. " What produces peace? The distress of
Seite 107 - general reprisals or otherwise shall and may lawfully apprehend, seize and take the ships, vessels and goods belonging to the French Republic or to any persons being subjects of the French Republic or inhabiting within any of the territories of the French Republic, and bring the same to judgment in
Seite 55 - What difference to the sufferer is " it that his property is taken by a national or a " private armed vessel? Did our merchants who " have lost 917 vessels by British capture feel any " gratification that most of them were taken by " his Majesty's men-of-war? Were the spoils less
Seite 88 - a safe conscience serve their country by fitting out Privateers, unless the -war be evidently unjust. But on the other hand it is an infamous proceeding on the part of foreigners to take out commissions from a prince in order to commit piratical depredations on a nation which is perfectly innocent with respect to
Seite 112 - them, or found out by them, or by examination of, or conference with, any mariners or passengers of, or in the ships or vessels taken, or by any other ways or means whatsoever touching or concerning the designs of the enemy, or any of their fleets, ships,
Seite 30 - secure from all danger of recapture; " paying to the vessel the whole freight which it " would have earned at her delivering port."* Grotius, that great and wise Dutchman, who has been called the Father of International Law, and who certainly was the first who reduced it to the form of a Science, wrote in the beginning of the