Then followed a scene of cruelty and murder without a parallel in civilized warfare, which needed but the tomahawk and scalping-knife to exceed the worst atrocities ever committed by savages.
If you comply with the demand, you are promised the treatment due to prisoners of war, according to usages in civilized warfare.
Blackman; 'what do I care for the rules of civilized warfare?
That dastardly murder was considered by all soldiers as one of the most outrageous acts and cold-blooded murders ever known in civilized warfare.
Redingson here interposed a question, desiring to know if this would come within the range of civilized warfare?
I see that they are to take orders from Jacob Thomlinson, who is a most reckless man, without any of the instincts of humanity, and utterly without any regard for the rules of civilized warfare.
Moreover, the revolution has about nine thousand prisoners of war who are treated humanely and according to the rules of civilized warfare.
With such conditions prevailing among the Filipinos themselves, it was to be expected that the laws of civilized warfare would be violated and that American soldiers taken prisoners would sometimes be treated with barbarity.
Did the Whigs and their opponents meet in open and fair fight, and give and take the courtesies and observe the rules of civilized warfare?
In what we innocently call "civilized warfare" (we might as well speak of "civilized cannibalism!
That these fears were groundless, even the baser elements of the soldiery being in the leash of a man who believed in civilized warfare, does not detract from the gallantry which anticipated rapine and sack without quailing.
He did not, however, take the obvious course of securing the person of Pontiac, who was allowed to depart and who at once began a siege which for vigor and ability is hardly surpassed in the annals even of civilized warfare.
He has avowed his purpose of trampling on the usages of civilized warfare, and given earnests of it in the plunder and wanton destruction of private property.
During all those years an utter disregard of the laws of civilized warfare and of the just demands of humanity, which called forth expressions of condemnation from the nations of Christendom, continued unabated.
The same disregard of the laws of civilized warfare and of the just demands of humanity which has heretofore called forth expressions of condemnation from the nations of Christendom has continued to blacken the sad scene.
It is not true that incivilized warfare there is an entire abrogation, or suspension, of the duty of truthfulness toward an enemy.
Should Congress fail to create such tribunals, then, under the Constitution, they must be constituted according to the laws and usages of civilized warfare.
War is cruel when conducted on the strictest rules of civilized warfare.
But sectional hate and the vain conceit of newly acquired power led to the idle prophecy of our speedy subjection, and hence the Government of the United States refused to act as required by humanity and the usages of civilized warfare.
The usual methods of civilized warfare consist in the destruction of an enemy's military power and the capture of his capital.
This course, adopted without provocation, was pursued with a ferocity that disregarded all the laws of civilized warfare, and must permanently remain a stain upon the escutcheon of a Government once bright among the nations.
Even a Bourbon paper, in Paris, declared that notwithstanding the atrocities charged on Napoleon, he had never committed an act so degrading to civilized warfare as this.
We know of nothing in the annals of civilized warfare compared to the boldness and success of our little navy during the war.
Disregarding the flag, and the rules of civilized warfare, Tarleton cut Cruitt down, and charged upon Buford, with his cavalry in the rear; while Maj.
Buford now perceiving that further resistance was hopeless, ordered a flag to be hoisted and the arms to be grounded, expecting the usual treatment sanctioned by civilized warfare.
The burning an hospital, and dragging away a number of dying people to expire in swamps, is a species of barbarity hitherto unknown in civilized warfare.
The arguments of military men, on the subject of the laws of civilized warfare, are sometimes equally absurd and impertinent.
He concluded by urging upon Marion to come out and fight him like a gentleman and Christian, according to the laws of civilized warfare.
Here McIlraith sent him a flag, reproaching him with shooting his picquets, contrary, as he alleged, to all the laws of civilized warfare, and concluded with defying him to combat in the open field.
He neither regards the rules of civilized warfare, nor even his most solemn engagements.
A belligerent that has not the means of caring properly for prisoners is in so far without the means of carrying on civilized warfare, and therefore comes so far short of possessing the right to make war at all.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilized warfare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
