One key point was whether it was legal under US law (and customary international law of war) for the German generals to kill hostage francs-tireurs or civilians who harbored them in reprisal and self-defense. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One key point was whether it was legal under US law and customary international law of war for the German generals to kill hostage francs-tireurs or civilians who harbored them in reprisal and self-defense. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Thus, uniforms and/or badges are important in determining prisoner-of-war status; and francs-tireurs, “terrorists”, saboteurs, mercenaries and spies do not qualify. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If the front was abolished, if civilians were to be bombed from the air, what became of the right of professional soldiers to shoot franc-tireurs and destroy their homes? ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Ford, qui a joué les francs-tireurs en proposant le premier des véhicules carbumodulables Le Monde du 5 novembre 2005, capable de rouler à l'E85, voit son lobbying récompensé. ❋ Oleg Kuzin (2006)
Since there has been no formal declaration of war by Italy, all opposing Italian forces are to be treated as francs-tireurs, and not as prisoners of war. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
The Germans are furious and swear that they have been attacked by _francs-tireurs_, and that they are going to inflict punishment. ❋ Various (N/A)
He did not depreciate the labors of so-called dilettanti, who were after all lovers of knowledge, and in a study such as that of anthropology, the labors of these volunteers, or franc-tireurs, had often proved most valuable. ❋ Various (N/A)
The apparently inexhaustible supply of old-fashioned English coatees with their worsted epaulettes is just coming to an end, and being succeeded by ragged red tunics, franc-tireurs 'brownish-green jackets and much-worn Prussian gray coats. ❋ Various (N/A)
They had heard that arms were hidden and francs-tireurs sheltered there, and they had swooped down on it and held it hard and fast. ❋ Emilie Kip Baker (N/A)
In such cases the obvious interest of the soldier is to conceal his mistake, and a convenient method of doing so is to raise the cry of "francs-tireurs!" ❋ Various (N/A)
A study based upon the German accounts of _francs-tireurs_ and "atrocities" in ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)
On the other hand there are no smiles in the pictures of the spies and francs-tireurs. ❋ Albert Rhys Williams (1922)
The German generals were afraid of a nation of franc-tireurs, where every man or boy who could hold a gun shot at the sight of a pointed helmet. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
Advancing into a hostile country, among a people whom they knew to be reckless in courage and of a proud spirit, the generals and high officers were obsessed with the thought of peasant warfare, rifle-shots from windows, murders of soldiers billeted in farms, spies everywhere, and the peril of franc-tireurs, goading their troops on the march. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
The Government is taking no chances of having trouble because of the doings of francs-tireurs. ❋ Hugh Gibson (1918)
Marin Lieutenants -- that the blue cap and the red pompon of the famous fighting sailors of France looked strangely to the Germans, who took the wearers for _francs-tireurs_, terror suggesting the idea. ❋ Arthur Gleason (1900)
"There are a lot of _francs-tireurs_ with the enemy." ❋ Arthur Gleason (1900)
It is true that, even when the franc-tireurs had been closest, there in the swamp among the rank marsh grasses, the distance was too great for them to have identified him with certainty. ❋ Unknown (1899)
