Hostilities Without Declaration of War: An Historical Abstract of the Cases in Which Hostilities Have Occurred Between Civilized Powers Prior to Declaration or Warning, 1700 to 1870 (1883)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...all the principal facts referred to in the Spanish Manifesto, so far as they concern this paper. An incident of the action showed how entirely the Spanish vessels were believed to be engaged in peaceful trade. A family of four daughters and their mother, with four sons, and the savings of 25 years of the colonial life ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ...all the principal facts referred to in the Spanish Manifesto, so far as they concern this paper. An incident of the action showed how entirely the Spanish vessels were believed to be engaged in peaceful trade. A family of four daughters and their mother, with four sons, and the savings of 25 years of the colonial life of a Spanish planter, returning home, were destroyed in the explosion of one of the ships which blew up. In the House of Lords the action of the Ministry was sustained by a vote of 113 to 36, the views of the majority being fairly summed up in Lord Westmoreland'a statement, that he "thought His Majesty's Ministers could not possibly have avoided this war with Spain; and as to their having made it without a previous declaration, it was neither contrary to the law of nations, nor unprecedented in modern and ancient history." The same plea formed the defence in the House of Commons. The speech of Sir John Nicoll, the Advocate-General, is thus reported: --"That the proceeding was not without precedent, in the general conduct of nations, he showed by the following examples of hostilities being commenced before war was declared: --The case of Sir G. Byng's mission in 1718; that of Admiral Hosier, and the attack upon Gibraltar in 1726; the seizure of the British vessels on their coasts by the Spaniards in 1739; the British fleet sent to attack the French off Dungeness in 1744; the seizure of the French ships in our ports This case is very curiously cited, as if it told against us instead of against the JVench. The French fleet, "attacked off Dungeness in 1744," were actually attempting an invasion of England prior to any declaration. in 1755; the detention of all British ships in the ports of Spain, three weeks before any decla...
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