But the contest has at no time assumed the conditions which amount to a war in the sense of international law, or which would show the existence of a de facto political organization of the insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of belligerency.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
From Jerusalem the order removed to Acre, in Syria, about the year 1187, where Richard Coeur de Lion established a headquarters for the Knights, and here they remained as an organization for about one hundred years, devoting themselves only in part to their original design as a religious and charitable body, but redoubling their belligerency toward the Moslems.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
Dennis was her match for belligerency.
"True and Other Stories"
George Parsons Lathrop