The nominal casus belliin the East was a trivial quarrel between Greek and Latin monks in Palestine.
But the actual casus belli was the determination of the French, who had now overrun Belgium, to open the Scheldt, and make Antwerp a great naval arsenal.
If, indeed, it is what we believe it to be, it amounts to a casus belli.
For these reasons the above-mentioned expeditionary force was detailed for the purpose of attaching the insolent Empire, liberating the imprisoned Guatemalan, and entirely removing the casus belli.
However that may be, the French Government looked on the refusal of its last demand, the publication of Bismarck's telegram, and the insults of the German Press as a casus belli.
The tidings reached the British Cabinet after it had been carefully considering whether German aggression on Belgium would not constitute a casus belli[559].
A war might solve the unionist problem which was insoluble in time of peace; and a casus belli was at hand.
No other casus belli is mentioned, no term is fixed to the duration of the treaty, and the whole instrument consists of only a few clauses[273].
It appears that Palmerston proposed on Saturday last that the entrance of the Russians into the Principalities should be considered a casus belli, in which, however, he was overruled and gave way.
Interference with the full exercise of a nation's rights or independence, an affront to its dignity, an unredressed injury, are instances of casus belli.
CASUS BELLI, the technical term for cases in which a state holds itself justified in making war, if a certain course to which it objects is persisted in.
Quiquendone had had for eight or nine hundred years a casus belli of the best quality; but she had preciously laid it up like a relic, and there had seemed some probability that it would become effete, and no longer serviceable.
The Virgamenians knew of old the forbearance and equanimity of the Quiquendonians, and made sport of them and their demand, of their casus belli and their ultimatum.
To treat the casus belli above and beyond all other considerations I hold to be the duty of the true commander-in-chief: as the surgeon disregards secondary symptoms and probes the wound.
But what instructions would you give to the soldiers about this casus belli?
First and foremost, I believe slavery to be the casus belli.
I would treat this casus belli as the Constitution allows us to treat it--not one hair's breadth from the grand old safeguard would I step.
However just may have been the cause of complaint, it is beyond all doubt that mean and disgraceful subterfuges have been adopted as the casus belli for each campaign undertaken against that empire.
But, after the war, some of the acts of the neutrals that at present seem quite insignificant may be magnified to advantage as casus belli.
Thiers concerning the casus belli; he is also said to be especially satisfied with M.
Yesterday my son-in-law heard that the French Ministry had resigned upon the occasion of the speech from the Crown, which it wished to devote to the subject of the casus belli, against the King's desires.
The simplest course would be for England and France to declare that a Prussian invasion of Switzerland should be a casus belli, and I think we should have no objection to this, but France won't go along with us.
Probably Admiral Hope saw this, and its damaging bearing upon his alleged casus belli; at all events, he thought fit to add another, though equally flimsy.
Evidence is abundant to prove what a mere pretence this casus belli was, but two reasons will be sufficient justification for so designating it.
If the reader does not know what a casus belli is, he can learn it from M.
Thiers presented two or three casus belli to the Powers, to which the Powers paid not the slightest attention.
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