 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - Počet stránok 564
...British officers unanimously and indignantly refused to comply. " Sooner," they wrote back to Gates, " than this army will consent to ground their arms in...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." Subsequently, Gates not only lowered his demands, but behaved toward his fallen enemies with a generosity... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - Počet stránok 556
...British officers unanimously and indignantly refused to comply. "Sooner," they wrote back to Gates, "than this army will consent to ground their arms...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." Subsequently, Gates not only lowered his demands, but behaved toward his fallen enemies with a generosity... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1906 - Počet stránok 102
...needs no answer. All public stores may be delivered, arms excepted. This article is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampments, they will rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter. And, later on, "If General... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - Počet stránok 548
...unanimous advice of a council of war, sent a messenger to the American camp to treat of a convention. After various messages, a convention for the surrender...General Burgoyne were to march out of their camp with honors of war, and the artillery out of the intrenchments, to the verge of the river, where the arms... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - Počet stránok 380
...advice of a council of war, sent a messenger to the American camp to Vol. 6 A. treat of a convention. After various messages, a convention for the surrender...General Burgoyne were to march out of their camp with honors of war, and the artillery out of the intrenchments, to the verge of the river, where the arms... | |
 | Francis Josiah Hudleston - 1927 - Počet stránok 400
...their way toward Bennington. The cold and severe answer to this was : "This article inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground...rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter." 7. A cessation of arms to continue till sunset to receive General Burgoyne's answer. It was the sixth... | |
 | Hoffman Nickerson - 1928 - Počet stránok 590
...which prescribed that the army from Canada must ground arms within their lines, he replied, ' . . . sooner than this army will consent to ground their...rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter.' Beside the face-saving stipulation that the troops be allowed to march out with the honors of war before... | |
 | Henry Laurens - 1968 - Počet stránok 742
...Side, to be pass'd over in their way towards Bennington_ Answer. This Article is inadmissible in any extremity; sooner than this Army will consent to ground...will rush on the Enemy determined to take no Quarter. October 14tn 1777. These Overtures being rejected the present Convention took place_ In this paper... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - Počet stránok 780
...this indignantly; Burgoyne replied in uncompromising language: This article is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampments, they will rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter.13 The terms, amended by Gates... | |
 | George Bernard Shaw - 2006 - Počet stránok 96
...needs no answer. Alt public itoret may be delivered, arms excepted. This article is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their oncampments, they will rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter. And, later on, " If General... | |
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This article is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampments, they will rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter. 
