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				 Re: Fort Retreat Survival --> call for discussion 
 Conventions of war:
 There were some conventions of war as far back as the Crusades and possibly before.  They weren't always applied, though.  In some cases in the crusades, defenders of a castle were converted at swordpoint and then released (the conversion didn't stick, oddly enough, and the soldiers in question probably went home and joined their army again).
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