Excerpt from Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History: From 458 to A. D. 1905 In the armed struggle against the sov creigh power of the United States now in progress in these islands frequent violations of important provisions of the laws of war have recently manifested themselves, ren dering it imperative, while rejecting every consideration of belligerency Of those oppos ing the government in the sense in which the term belligerency is generally accepted and understood, to remind all concerned of the existence Of these laws, that exemplary punishments attach to the infringement thereof, and that their strict observance is required, not only by combatant forces, but as well by non-combatants, native or alien. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.