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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Excerpt: ... refreshments for the body (by eating and drinking to invigorate the strength). When they shall see hoisted amidships the square banner of our Lord Jesus Christ, they shall hasten, every one ardently and in good order, without one galley fouling another, to assail the enemy, and shall not withdraw from the fight until the last extremity. And if, peradventure, any one shall attempt to assail before the signal, or shall attempt to withdraw from the engagement, he shall be punished as a traitor. It is notable, the insistence with which, in all documents of this kind, is repeated the warning, that no one shall dare to withdraw from battle before the end of the combat, and reminded of the terrible penalties reserved for transgressors. In the same manner in which the captain of the fleet impresses this prescript upon the commanders of ships, the government does not omit to devote a chapter to it in its instructions which are given to the chiefs of every maritime expedition, and then to bind their personal responsibility, citing always the law of Aug. 10, 1294, which strikes at all transgressors whatever who may have been engaged, and is applicable not only to the commander, but as well to all the officers on board, and also to the sub-officers and steersmen, not excepting any but those found "manifestly not culpable." [ Here follows an extract from the law in Latin, a translation of which is appended.] The origin of this wise law (severe and never repealed), goes back to the times of Demosthenes, who, in his oration "de corona," says: "I marvel that, while it binds and punishes the sailor who abandons his ship, it does no less to the captain who abandons his fleet." And, perhaps it was called for by some shameful act, a repetition of which it was urgent to prevent, but which, after that ep...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154324808
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115432480X
  • Publisher Date: 03 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 617 gr


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