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The Avalon Project : General Orders No. 100 (7205 words) |
 | In modern regular wars of the Europeans, and their descendants in other portions of the globe, protection of the inoffensive citizen of the hostile country is the rule; privation and disturbance of private relations are the exceptions. |
 | A prisoner of war is a public enemy armed or attached to the hostile army for active aid, who has fallen into the hands of the captor, either fighting or wounded, on the field or in the hospital, by individual surrender or by capitulation. |
 | In exchanging prisoners of war, such numbers of persons of inferior rank may be substituted as an equivalent for one of superior rank as may be agreed upon by cartel, which requires the sanction of the government, or of the commander of the army in the field. |
| The General War (7819 words) |
 | The war was savage (being the first to have large numbers of ships involved) but ultimately just another border war as the state of logistics made any deep strikes into enemy territory impossible to support. |
 | The Romulan decision to enter the General War is a fascinating study area. |
 | The remainder of the war was much as the previous years had been, an attrition battle along the original border punctuated by occasional major battles. |