de Vattel: Of the Glory of a Nation

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)Emmerich de Vattel

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Of the Glory of a Nation§ 186. Advantages of glory.§ 187. Duty of the nation.§ 188. Duty of the prince.§ 189. Duty of the citizens.§ 190. Example of the Swiss.§ 191. Attacking the glory of a nation is doing her an injury.
   1. See the Memoirs of Comines.
   2. Of this small army, "eleven hundred and fifty-eight were counted dead on the field, and thirty-two wounded. Twelve men only escaped, who were considered by their countrymen as cowards that had preferred a life of shame to the honor of dying for their country." History of the Helvetic Confederacy, by M. de Watteville, vol. i. p. 250. — Tschudi, p. 425.
   3. Vogel's Historical and political Treatise of the Alliances between France and the Thirteen Cantons, p. 75, 76.