How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Wherefore we most heartily provoke, challenge, and defy your Lordship to the said combat and monomachy, and have sent these letters by the hand of our well beloved and royal brother Edmund, sometimes King under us in Narnia, Duke of Lantern Waste and Count of the Western March, […]. (13.14)
Politics and war go hand in hand, and Peter's letter to Miraz is a perfect example of this. It's also a good example of why legal treaties are not generally used in bedtime stories.
Quote #8
"Excuses for not fighting! Are you soldiers? Are you Telmarines? Are you men? And if I do refuse it (as all good reasons of captaincy and martial policy urge me to do) you will think, and teach others to think, I was afraid. Is it not so?" (13.56)
Miraz is thinking like a prideful king, not as a captain in a war. If all the "good reasons of captaincy and martial policy urge" you to do something, then do it! Come on, Miraz, get your head in the game.
Quote #9
They were certainly at it hammer and tongs now: such a flurry of blows that it seemed impossible for either not to be killed. As the excitement grew, the shouting almost died away. The spectators were holding their breath. It was most horrible and most magnificent. (14.34)
Here's another great example of the novel's wishy-washy approach to war. The line "horrible and magnificent" kind of sums it up, and it'll be up to you as a reader to decide whether it's one, the other, or both.