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If a commodore leaves his quarter-deck, pulls ashore, and, with his guns commanding a town, threatens to blow it down, is not this an act of war?
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
He poses a rhetorical question to illustrate that threatening violence in foreign territory constitutes an act of war.
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