A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early AmericaBloomsbury Academic, 3 dec 1980 - 250 pagina's |
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Pagina 63
... writers , perhaps not suprisingly considering the milieu , attributed the scourge of warfare to a divine plan to punish mankind . When men strayed from God , the Lord was certain to raise up some foreign peoples to smite the ...
... writers , perhaps not suprisingly considering the milieu , attributed the scourge of warfare to a divine plan to punish mankind . When men strayed from God , the Lord was certain to raise up some foreign peoples to smite the ...
Pagina 67
... writers admitted that it was extraordinarily difficult to determine the precise cause of wars . These writers usually admonished soldiers simply to fight and not to think about the morality of the conflict , for its causes were likely ...
... writers admitted that it was extraordinarily difficult to determine the precise cause of wars . These writers usually admonished soldiers simply to fight and not to think about the morality of the conflict , for its causes were likely ...
Pagina 71
... writers specified that the use of violence to defend one's religion , civil rights , property , or existing government was legitimate under sacred law . Or , as Samuel Nowell observed , " it is lawful by war to defend what we have ...
... writers specified that the use of violence to defend one's religion , civil rights , property , or existing government was legitimate under sacred law . Or , as Samuel Nowell observed , " it is lawful by war to defend what we have ...
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The Nature of American | 1 |
War and Society | 3 |
The Indian Wars | 29 |
Copyright | |
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A Wilderness of Miseries: War and Warriors in Early America John Ferling Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1980 |
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