When Did The Practice Of Wartime Ransoms Decline In Europe?

Known either as "buying back" or simple extortion the exchange of prisoners for payment has had a long-history up to today (ie; EU countries paying ISIS for a few citizens back). Long associated with chivalry when did the practice become uncommonly practiced in war? There were obvious drawbacks to the practice of paying your enemies during a war, of individual soldiers/groups taking ransoms for personal gain, of releasing capable/important figures back to the enemy-yet it was deemed honourable, it provided incentive at a time when soldiers were rarely paid, and it reduced the number of noble causalities.
 
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Known either as "buying back" or simple extortion the exchange of prisoners for payment has had a long-history up to today (ie; EU countries paying ISIS for a few citizens back). Long associated with chivalry when did the practice become uncommonly practiced in war? There were obvious drawbacks to the practice of paying your enemies during a war, of individual soldiers/groups taking ransoms for personal gain, of releasing capable/important figures back to the enemy-yet it was deemed honourable, it provided incentive at a time when soldiers were rarely paid, and it reduced the number of noble causalities.

During the French Revolutionary Wars, British and Russian relations were damaged when Britain refused to pay the ransom to get 7,000 Russian soldiers back from France. Napoleon ultimately gave the soldiers back for free to bolster relations with Russia.
 
Known either as "buying back" or simple extortion the exchange of prisoners for payment has had a long-history up to today (ie; EU countries paying ISIS for a few citizens back). Long associated with chivalry when did the practice become uncommonly practiced in war? There were obvious drawbacks to the practice of paying your enemies during a war, of individual soldiers/groups taking ransoms for personal gain, of releasing capable/important figures back to the enemy-yet it was deemed honourable, it provided incentive at a time when soldiers were rarely paid, and it reduced the number of noble causalities.

I think around the 16th century or so, presumably related to the rise in firearms. It's much easier to overpower a guy and drag him to the rear when you're in hand-to-hand combat than when you're standing a hundred yards away blasting each other with firearms.
 
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