 | History - 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 Smith - Canada - 1815 - 252 pages
...British should gr$>urj<j their arms in their encampment, General Burgoyne replied, " This arti- CHAP. cle is inadmissible in every extremity ; sooner than this...rush on the enemy, determined to take no quarter." This article being rescinded, a Convention was at length agreed on. The troops to march out of their... | |
 | William Grimshaw - United States - 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 - United States - 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 - United States - 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 - United States - 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 - Great Britain - 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...take no quarter." After various messages a convention was settled, by which it was substantially stipulated as follows : " The troops under general Burgoyne... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 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...take no quarter." After various messages a convention was settled in the following terms : — " The troops under General Burgoyne to march out of their... | |
 | 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...rush on the enemy, " determined to take no quarter ! " This rejoinder being brought to General Gates, that officer was found willing to recede from his... | |
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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. 
