"Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren…. Provide everything necessary for them on the road."
George Washington, after capturing 1,000 Hessians in the Battle of Trenton. He ordered that enemy prisoners be treated with the same rights for which our nation was fighting.
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