contraband of war

He determined to hold them as "contraband of war."

Such slave was considered contraband of war.

The blockade was unusually restrictive in that even foodstuffs were considered "contraband of war".

In Virginia, he had started the practice of treating escaped Southern slaves as contraband of war.

The same day de Coetlogon published a proclamation requesting captains to submit to search for contraband of war.

It contained weapons factories, and it was a port for blockade runners who carried contraband of war.

Benjamin Franklin Butler, in May 1861, declared black slaves contraband of war.

"Mrs. Overby, his wife, tried to run the place till the Yankees came, said the field hands were contraband of war, and carried them off.

On the last voyage she had brought the ammunition already so frequently referred to; as a matter of fact, she was again bringing contraband of war.

Shiel wrote about visiting Redonda in his adventure novel Contraband of War in 1899.

There he gained further political renown as the first to practice confiscation of fugitive slaves as contraband of war.

During the war, Union generals such as Benjamin Butler declared that slaves in occupied areas were contraband of war and accordingly refused to return them.

Butler was the first Eastern Union General to declare runaway Virginia slaves "contraband of war"; refusing to return them to their masters.

There, the commander, Union Army General Benjamin F. Butler, a lawyer by training, declared them to be "Contraband of war".

The French authorities were compelled to allow him to levy customs dues on all goods imported into Spain, except contraband of war, which he would not allow to pass without fighting.

Butler had already done the institution of slavery in the Confederacy considerable damage by instituting his "contraband of war" policy while commanding Fort Monroe on the Virginia peninsula.

After General Benjamin Butler decided to treat slaves flocking to his Union lines as contraband of war, plantation owners began moving their slaves far away from Union armies.

These escaped slaves were regarded as "contraband of war" or as simply "contrabands;" they were not yet technically "freedmen", and the Union army was unsure of what to do with them.

In this year a naval blockade of Jolo was established, and in 1873 two German vessels were seized while carrying contraband of war to the Jolo Moros.

The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U.S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the belligerent European navies.

Having all that dynamite on board, contraband of war, she had to avoid the Russians, and at that time most people supposed that the Baltic Fleet was already in Far Eastern waters.

Dernburg said that because Lusitania "carried contraband of war" and also because she "was classed as an auxiliary cruiser" Germany had had a right to destroy her regardless of any passengers aboard.

During the American Civil War, Confederate-owned slaves who sought refuge in Union military camps or who lived in territories that fell under Union control were declared "contraband of war".

Bermuda, and vessels like her, had been "fitted out in English ports, laden with arms, munitions, and contraband of war, clearing with British papers and sailing under the English flag.

The next day, as by an after-thought, war and martial law were proclaimed for the Samoan Islands, the introduction of contraband of war forbidden, and ships and boats declared liable to search.