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The British officers thus addressed, alleged against Postell that he had broken his parole. If this were so, it was a just cause of detention; but it will be remembered that the British themselves revoked these paroles on the assumption that the province was conquered, and when, as citizens, they wished to exact military service from the people. In these circumstances the virtue of the obligation was lost, and ceased on the part of the citizen, because of the violation on the part of the conqueror, of the immunities which he promised. Marion took decisive measures for compelling the necessary respect to his flag, by seizing upon Captain Merritt, the bearer of a British flag, and putting him in close keeping as a security for Postell. We do not know that he Moncler retaliated upon the British soldiers the cruel murders, by hanging, which had been Moncler Jackets practised upon his own. His nature would probably recoil from carrying his own threat, into execution. In answer to one of Marion's reproaches, we are told by Col. Watson, that " the burning of houses and the property of the inhabitants, who are our enemies, is customary in all civilized nations." The code of civilisation is certainly susceptible of liberal constructions. Its elasticity is not the least of its maiy merits.Cornwallis pursued Greene Moncler Clothing into North Carolina, and after much-manoeuvering between tie armies, they met atGuilford on the 15th of March, 1781. The honors of the victory, small as it was, lay with the British. Their loss, however, was such, that the advantages of the field enured to the Americans. From this field, Cornwallis took his way to Virginia, and his career as a commander in America was finally arrested at the siege of York. During the absence of Greene from South Carolina, Marion's was the only force in active operation against the Moncler Outlet British. An opportunity so favorable for harassing and distressing the enemy, as that afforded by the Moncler Jacket absence of their main army in North Carolina, was not neglected ; and, calling in his detachments, he once more carried dismay into Discount Moncler Jacket the heart of the Tory settlements, on Moncler Coats both sides ot the Santee.&!ü-^ë>õwww.aqjoy.com.cnóèËé
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