Yesterday I learned that, despite the loyalty which I have kept my engagements with Your Majesty, your troops have crossed the Russian frontier, and I have this moment received from Petersburg a note, in which Count Lauriston informs me, as a reason for this aggression, that Your Majesty has considered yourself to be in a
state of war with me from the time Prince Kuragin asked for his passports.
You will gratify us by describing the manner of their making War, of the mode of subsisting themselves during a
state of war, and a state of peace, their Arms, and the effect of them, whether they act on foot or on horse back, detailing the discipline, and manuvers of the war parties, the power of their horses, size and general discription; in short any information which you may conceive would be useful to the Government.
When Morocco is in a
state of war, Arab couriers carry letters through the country and charge a liberal postage.
Reasoning thus, I discovered that it was improbable that a
state of war still existed, and that the people all had been drawn from this portion of England to some other, where they might better defend themselves against an invader.
Lady Jane, ignorant of the fact that a
state of war existed between Great Britain and Germany, welcomed the officers most hospitably and gave orders through her trusted Waziri to prepare a feast for the black soldiers of the enemy.
If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obedience and faith, let us at least resist our temptations; let us enter into the
state of war and wake Thor and Woden, courage and constancy, in our Saxon breasts.
The next day there was added to his growing disillusionment a third ugly impression, trivial indeed to describe, a mere necessary everyday incident of a
state of war, but very distressing to his urbanised imagination.
We found a
state of war when we came, and went into it of course.
who, as to me, were innocent, and whose barbarous customs were their own disaster, being in them a token, indeed, of God's having left them, with the other nations of that part of the world, to such stupidity, and to such inhuman courses, but did not call me to take upon me to be a judge of their actions, much less an executioner of His justice - that whenever He thought fit He would take the cause into His own hands, and by national vengeance punish them as a people for national crimes, but that, in the meantime, it was none of my business - that it was true Friday might justify it, because he was a declared enemy and in a
state of war with those very particular people, and it was lawful for him to attack them - but I could not say the same with regard to myself.
North Korea has long called for a peace deal with the United States to normalize relations and end the technical
state of war that has existed since the 1950-1953 Korean War, which concluded with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
BAGHDAD (NINA) - The Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim, said that the country's government is ready to face any emergency or a
state of war in the region, acknowledging the possibility of a major military conflict.
The PPP reiterated the need to devise national unity policy to keep the nation united as the country is in a
state of war.
state of war - a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"