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Normandy Sabbath - Lawrence Beal Smith, 1944 : Couretsy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History
The Laws of War




See Also the International Committee of the Red Cross for additional documents

Miscellaneous Treaties, Conventions and Agreements

  • 1856 - Declaration of Paris; April 16

  • 1863 - General Orders No. 100 - Instructions For the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field by Francis Lieber : April 24

  • 1868 - Declaration of St. Petersburg; November 29

  • 1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact and Associated Documents; August 27

    • Hague Conference of 1899

  • Correspondence, Instructions and Reports of the United States Commission

  • Hague I - Pacific Settlement of International Disputes : 29 July 1899

  • Hague II - Laws and Customs of War on Land : 29 July 1899

  • Hague III - Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of Principles of Geneva Convention of 1864 : July 29,1899

  • Hague IV - Prohibiting Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons : July 29, 1899

  • Declaration I - on the Launching of Projectiles and Explosives from Balloons; July 29, 1899

  • Declaration II - on the Use of Projectiles the Object of Which is the Diffusion of Asphyxiating or Deleterious Gases; July 29, 1899

  • Declaration III - on the Use of Bullets Which Expand or Flatten Easily in the Human Body; July 29, 1899

  • Final Act of the International Peace Conference; July 29, 1899

    • Hague Conference of 1907

  • Hague I - Pacific Settlement of International Disputes : 18 October 1907

  • Hague II - Limitation of Employment of Force for Recovery of Contract Debts : October 18, 1907

  • Hague III - Opening of Hostilities : 18 October 1907

  • Hague IV - Laws and Customs of War on Land : 18 October 1907

  • Hague V - Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land : 18 October 1907

  • Hague VI - Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities : 18 October 1907

  • Hague VII - Conversion of Merchant Ships into War Ships : 18 October 1907

  • Hague VIII - Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines : 18 October 1907

  • Hague IX - Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War : 18 October 1907

  • Hague X - Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention : 18 October 1907

  • Hague XI - Restrictions With Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War : 18 October 1907

  • Hague XIII -Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War : 18 October 1907

    • Geneva Conventions

  • 1864 - Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded on the Field of Battle; August 22

  • 1928 - Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating Gas, and for Bacteriological Methods of Warfare; February 8

  • 1929 - Convention Between the United States of America and Other Powers, Relating to Prisoners of War; July 27

  • 1949 - Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, August 12

  • 1949 - Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, August 12

  • 1949 - Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; August 12

  • 1949 - Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, August 12

  • 1975 - Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (1972); March 26

    • Treatises

  • International Law by Henry Maine




    • Normandy Sabbath - Lawrence Beal Smith, 1944 : Couretsy of the U.S. Army Center of Military History