 | 1805 - 608 pages
...passed over in their way towards Beniiinrfton. .Answer. This article т;н!пш.чЫе in any eslrcmity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter. VII. A ccsMition ofiirms to continue till sun-set, to receive General Burgoyne's answer. (Signed) Horatio... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1821 - 298 pages
...proposed that the British should ground their arms ; but general Burgoyne replied : " This article is inadmissible, in every extremity. Sooner than this...they will rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarters." The'celebrated Polish patriot, Kosciuski was chief engineer ia the army of general Gates.... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 540 pages
...answer." 5th. " All publick stores may be delivered arms excepted." 6th. This article inadmissible in any extremity ; sooner than this army will consent to...rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter." The following message accompanied these answers : " If General Gates does not mean to recede from the... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 540 pages
...answer." 5th. " All publick stores may be delivered arms excepted." 6th. This article inadmissible in any extremity ; sooner than this army will consent to...rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter." The following message accompanied these answers : u If General Gates does not mean to recede from the... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 544 pages
...may be delivered arms excepted." 6lh. This article inadmissible in any extremity; sooner than thin army will consent to ground their arms in their encampment,...rush on the enemy determined to take no quarter." The following message accompanied these answers: • • If General Gates does not mean to recede from... | |
 | J. R. Miller - 1825 - 490 pages
...the British should ground their arms. But general Burgoyne replied, " This article is iiiudnmsiblo in every extremity ; sooner than this army will consent...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." After various messages a convention was settled, by which it was substantially stipulated as follows... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1835 - 364 pages
...following reply was sent : — ' This article is inadmissible in every extremity : sooner than the army will consent to ground their arms in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, with a determination to take no quarter.' After much negociation, a convention was settled, of which... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...of war. He also proposed that the British should ground their arms. Burgoyne replied, " This article is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." After various messages a convention was settled in the following terms : — " The troops under General... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...the following rejoinder, which Burgoyne proposed to send : " This article " is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than " this army will consent to...the enemy, " determined to take no quarter ! " This rejoinder being brought to General Gates, that officer was found willing to recede from his first pretensions.... | |
 | 1836 - 528 pages
...article is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their arm» in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, determined" to take no quarter. And again, in similar language, — ' If General Gate* i\'-f~ net mean to recede from the 6th article,... | |
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This article is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this army will consent to ground their arms in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter. 
