[STONE (Charles Pomeroy)]
La Loi de la Guerre.
Scarce. We have been unable to trace another copy.
Stone presents here a digest of current thinking on the Law of War for his charges in the Egyptian Army. He self-confessedly draws heavily on Lieber’s Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field, but also the works of Halleck, Wheaton and Bluntschli, particularly in those parts relating to the rights of neutrals.
Stone “… fought in the American-Mexican War of 1846-7 and on the Federal side in the American Civil War in which he was engaged 1861-4, rising to Brigadier-General… between 1870 and 1883 he served in the Egyptian Army with the rank of fariq as Chief of the General Staff.” [Hill Biographical Dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.] During this period he was not only responsible for putting the EA on a “professional” footing, but also for an extensive programme of surveying and mapping of the Khedive’s territories.
