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Originally Posted by NJGOAT
Probably one of the last moments of chivalric warfare that had started to die off during the Napoleonic Era. The irony is that the commanders became so fearful that the men would refuse to fight that they had to threaten to shoot their own troops if they continued with the truce. I suppose at some point that the men fighting the new "national war" would begin to realize that the guy on the other side of the trench wasn't all that different from himself, scary proposition for an army commander.
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Which leads us directly to the Hippie-era question:
"What if they gave a war and no one came?"
I'm just saying...
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