Note p. 231, note 2 — Chapter IV · WARFARE ON SEA
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[364] It is asserted that a captured enemy merchantman may at once be converted by the captor into a man-of-war, but the cases of the Ceylon (1811) and the Georgina (1814), 1 Dodson 105 and 397, which are quoted in favour of such a practice, are not decisive. See Higgins, War and the Private Citizen (1912), pp. 138-142.