 | 1836 - 600 pages
...article is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than this army will consent to ground their arras in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter.* And again, in similar language, — ' If General Gates does not mean to recede from the 6th article,... | |
 | J. R. Miller - 1844 - 742 pages
...also proposed that the British should ground their arms. But general 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, by which it was substantially stipulated as follows... | |
 | John Graves Simcoe - 1844 - 374 pages
...command, than when he came to the rejection of one of the proposed articles, in the following terms : " Sooner than this army will consent to ground their...rush on the " enemy, determined to take no quarter;" the whole corps thrilled with animation, and resentment against the enemy, and with sympathy for their... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 448 pages
...proposal the following reply was sent. ' This article is inadmissible in any extremity : sooner than the army will consent to ground their arms in their encampment, they will rush on the enemy, with a Capituia- determination to take no quarter.' After much negogenerai tiation, a convention was... | |
 | Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 400 pages
...British should ground their arms. Burgoyne replied, " This * Botta, book viii. t Book viii. article is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." After various messages, a convention for the surrender of the army was settled, which provided that... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 pages
...the following rejoinder, which Burgoyne proposed to send : " This article " is inadmissible in any extremity. Sooner than " this army will consent to...rush on the enemy, " determined to take no quarter ! " Tins rejoinder being brought to General Gates, that officer was found willing to recede from his... | |
 | sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 348 pages
...arms. Burgoyne replied, " This article is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this array will consent to ground their arms in their encampment,...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." After various messages a convention for the surrender of the army was settled, which provided, that... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 516 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 822 pages
...the British should ground their arms. But General Burgoyne replied, "This article is madri issible in every extremity ; — sooner than this army will...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." After various messages, a convention was settled, by which it was substantially stipulated as follows... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...in the following rejoinder, which Burgoyne proposed to send: "This ar" tide 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.... | |
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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. 
