Report of a Committee Appointed by the Massachusetts Historical Society on Exchanges of Prisoners During the American Revolutionary War: Presented Dec, 19, 1861 (Classic Reprint) - Paperback

• Release Date   2/10/2019
• ISBN-13   9781331030263 | 978-1-331-03026-3
• ISBN   1331030269 | 1-331-03026-9
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Massachusetts Historical Society
• Excerpt from Report of a Committee Appointed by the Massachusetts Historical Society on Exchanges of Prisoners During the American Revolutionary War: Presented Dec, 19, 1861The two parties were thus brought face to face in the field the one acting as a sovereign to suppress a rebellion, and determined to apply all his judicial powers of punishment, as well as his executive powers of dispersing the rebellious forces. the other acting upon revolutionary principles to accomplish its independence by arms. The one could, of course, make no concession of belligerent rights, beyond those which actual war renders unavoidable, if a civil war is to be conducted between sovereign and subject with reasonable regard to the usages of civilized warfare: the other claimed all the rights of belligerents, as well as those of an independ ent sovereignty, - staking their lives upon their power to maintain both of these positions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully. any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.