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_Seth_ · 12-07-06, 06:11 PM

When the merchants started carrying guns, and became so called "armed merchants", was their crew considered soliders or plain sailors? Did they in that case have the same rights (similar to the later 1948 geneva-convention) as a combattant, or was they treated as non-combattants? I just have to ask, or else i cant get to sleep...:hmm:

12-07-06, 06:11 PM	#1
_Seth_ Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: In Tromsoe, @Tirpitz' final resting place.. Posts: 3,277 Downloads: 94 Uploads: 0	How to treat armed merchants and their crew When the merchants started carrying guns, and became so called "armed merchants", was their crew considered soliders or plain sailors? Did they in that case have the same rights (similar to the later 1948 geneva-convention) as a combattant, or was they treated as non-combattants? I just have to ask, or else i cant get to sleep...:hmm: __________________