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Prior to the modern era, there were no set rules for warfare.

Other than an appeal to honor, there wasn't anything as formal as a treaty of how prisoners or

injured combatants should be treated.

Capture soldiers might sometimes be executed, sometimes they might be imprisoned or enslaved,

and other times they might be paroled, a release where they

promised to go home and not fight again.

While battles have always been bloody, the 19th century saw a dramatic rise in the number of

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