Hague Peace Conference

noun

1. a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1899, that established The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration.
2. a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1907, that defined prisoner-of-war treatment, maritime warfare, and wartime neutrality.

Example Sentences

The second Hague Peace Conference met in 1907 and produced not less than thirteen conventions and one declaration.

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(concerning the conversion of merchant-ships into war-ships) of the second Hague Peace Conference of 1907.

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Until the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, however, general treaties of arbitration were not numerous.

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But it was not until the Hague Peace Conference in 1899 that an adaptation came into legal existence.

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But since the first Hague Peace Conference that is definitely no longer the case.

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