 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 530 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 for the surrender of the army was settled which provided that... | |
 | CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 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 for the surrender of the army was settled which provided that... | |
 | Francis Josiah Hudleston - 1927 - 400 pages
...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 - 590 pages
...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 - 742 pages
...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 - 780 pages
...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 - 96 pages
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 656 pages
...Side to be passed over in their Way toward Bennington. Answer. — This Article is inadmissible in any Extremity : sooner than this Army will consent to...will rush on the Enemy determined to take no Quarter. (Signed) Horatio Gates. Camp at Saratoga, Oct. 14th., 1777. These Overtures being rejected, the following... | |
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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. 
