 | Martha Finley - 1891 - Страниц: 306
...officer rode up to the fort with a flag and a drummer, and insolently proclaimed, 'The King of England orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms...and they are warned that if they stand the battle, no quarter whatever will be given.' " Colonel Greene answered him, ' We ask no quarter nor will we... | |
 | Ethan Allen - 1894 - Страниц: 278
...near the fort with a flag and a drummer. The officer insolently proclaimed : " The King of England orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms...and they are warned, that if they stand the battle no quarter will be given." Col. Greene replied : " We ask no quarter, nor give any." The officer and... | |
 | Ethan Allen - 1899 - Страниц: 574
...drew near the fort with a flag and a drummer. The officer insolently proclaimed, " The King of England orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms;...and they are warned that if they stand the battle no quarterwill be given.*' Col. Greene replied, " We ask no quarter, nor give any." The officer and... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1900 - Страниц: 626
...their blood boiled hotter still when they heard the officer's arrogant words : " The King of England orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms,...and they are warned that if they stand the battle no quarter whatever will be given them." " We shall neither ask for quarter, nor expect it, and shall... | |
 | Winthrop Sargent - 1902 - Страниц: 632
...How Sclatzen, Knotzen, Blatzchun bleed Unless we break a tooth." Howe was opposed politically to the Ministers, and it is probable these and other diatribes...carried; and, with shouts of triumph and waving of hats,—as thinking the day their own —they advanced against the abatis. But Donop seems to have... | |
 | Francis Bazley Lee - 1903 - Страниц: 476
...flag of truce, followed by a drummer. He halted close to the ramparts and shouted: The King of England orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms,...and they are warned that if they stand the battle no quarter will be given. Colonel Greene deputized a man to mount the parapet and fling back the answer:... | |
 | Edmund Farwell Slafter - 1904 - Страниц: 32
...surrender. The demand was couched in the following extraordinary language : " The King of England commands his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms, and they are warned that if they wait until the battle, no quarter will be granted." Colonel Christopher Green, in command of the garrison,... | |
 | City History Society of Philadelphia - 1917 - Страниц: 546
...served to irritate the garrison, and inspire them with more resolution. 'The King of England,' said he, 'orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their...and they are warned, that if they stand the battle, no quarter whatever will be given.' The answer was that they accepted the challenge, and that there... | |
 | National Americana Society - 1924 - Страниц: 824
...of truce and followed by a drummer. He halted close to the ramparts and shouted: The king of England orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms,...and they are warned that if they stand the battle no quarter will be given. Colonel Greene deputized a man to mount the parapet and fling back the answer:... | |
 | Lee P. Anderson - 2002 - Страниц: 380
...distance of about forty rods, the British officer demanded its surrender by saying, "The King of England orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms and they are warned that if they stand to battle, no quarter will be given." A brash, young Lieutenantcolonel by the name of Stephen Olney,... | |
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The King of England, said he, orders his rebellious subjects to lay down their arms, and they are warned, that if they stand the battle, no quarters whatever will be given. 
