‘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.
[37] Saint-Palaye, _Mémoires sur la Chevalerie_, iii. 10, 133.
[38] Vinsauf’s _Itinerary of Richard I._, ii. 16.
[39] Matthew of Westminster, 460; Grose, ii. 348.
[40] Monstrelet, ii. 115.
[41] _Mémoires sur la Chevalerie_, i. 322.
[42] Petitot, v. 102; and Ménard, _Vie de B. du Guesclin_, 440.
[43] Petitot, v. 134.
[44] Meyrick, _Ancient Armour_, ii. 5.
[45] i. 123.
[46] Monstrelet, i. 259.
[47] ii. 5.
[48] ii. 11.
[49] ii. 22, compare ii. 56.
[50] Monstrelet, ii. 111.
[51] ii. 113.
[52] See for some, Livy, xxix. 8, xxxi. 26, 30, xxxvii. 21, xliii. 7,
xliv. 29.
[53] Livy, xliv. 29.
[54] Meyrick, i. 41.
[55] Demmin, _Encyclopédie d’Armurerie_, 490.
[56] Meyrick, ii. 204.
[57] Grose, ii. 114.
[58] Petitot, xvi. 134.
[59] Grose, ii. 343.
[60] iv. 27.
[61] iv. 36.
[62] iii. 109.
[63] _Mémoires_, vi. 1.
[64] Halleck, _International Law_, ii. 154.
[65] _Elements of Morality_, sec. 1068.
[66] _Des Droits et Devoirs des Nations neutres_, ii. 321-323.
[67] _History of the Royal Navy_, i. 357.
[68] Nicolas, ii. 341.
[69] Nicolas, ii. 405.
[70] Monstrelet, i. 12.
[71] Nicolas, ii. 108.
[72] _Ibid._ i. 333.
[73] Froissart, ii. 85.
[74] Entick, _New Naval History_ (1757), 823. ‘Some of the Spanish
prizes were immensely rich, a great many of the French were of
considerable value, and so were many of the English; but the balance
was about two millions in favour of the latter.’
[75] From Entick’s _New Naval History_ (1757), 801-817.
[76] Martens, _Essai sur les Corsaires_ (Horne’s translation), 86, 87.
[77] _Ibid._ 93.
[78] III. xv. 229.
[79] Emerigon, _On Insurances_ (translation), 442.
[80] Martens, 19.
[81] Hautfeuille, _Des Droits et Devoirs des Nations neutres_, ii. 349.
[82] _De Jure Maritimo_, i. 72.
[83] _Despatches_, vi. 145.
[84] _Despatches_, vi. 79.
[85] The last occasion was on April 13, 1875.
[86] Halleck, _International Law_, ii. 316.
[87] Bluntschli, _Modernes Völkerrecht_, art. 665.
[88] James, _Naval History_, i. 255.
[89] James, ii. 71.
[90] _Ibid._ ii. 77.
[91] Ortolan, _Diplomatie de la Mer_, ii. 32.
[92] Campbell’s _Admirals_, viii. 40.
[93] _Campbell_, vii. 21. _James_, i. 161. Stinkpots are jars or shells
charged with powder, grenades, &c.
[94] James, i. 283.
[95] Brenton, ii. 471.
[96] Caltrops, or crows’-feet, are bits of iron with four spikes so
arranged that however they fall one spike always remains upwards.
Darius planted the ground with caltrops before Arbela.
[97] Chapter xix. of the _Tactica_.
[98] Frontinus, _Strategematicon_, IV. vii. 9, 10. ‘Amphoras pice et
tæda plenas; ... vascula viperis plena.’
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