Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 25, 2025
These remarks being overruled, the chamade was beat, a conference ensued, and very honourable conditions were granted to the garrison, in consideration of the gallant defence they had made.
Stralsund instantly beat the chamade, as we heard; and all was surrender and subjection in those regions. Surrender; not yet pacification, not while Charles lived; nor for half a century after his death, could Mecklenburg, Holstein-Gottorp, and other his confederates, escape a sad coil of calamities bequeathed by him to them.
Meanwhile a drummer from the Castle was seen to ascend the bill, bearing a white pennon at the end of a lance, which he planted on the ground when he came within sight, and beat the chamade upon his instrument. The messenger being brought before the Brigadier, handed him a small packet.
So that Quadt is totally driven in again, Austrians along with him; and is obliged to beat chamade; D'O following the example, about an hour after, without even a capitulation. Was there ever seen such a defence!
We glance only at two points of it. "VILSHOFEN, 28th MARCH, 1745. General Browne summons them in Vilshofen, this day; and, on their negative, storms in upon them, bursts them to pieces; upon which they beat chamade. PFAFFENHOFEN, APRIL 15th.
Then he asked, in a cool voice: "Do you think it time, Babache, to beat the chamade?" I remained silent. Gaston Cheverny scowled at me; he was at the age when prudence seems but a beggarly virtue at best. Only Beauvais winked at me approvingly, and Count Saxe saw him in a mirror opposite.
A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the chamade. Longwy had surrendered! All now was triumph and congratulation. We flocked round the duke, and hailed his first conquest as a promise of perpetual success. He was in high spirits at an achievement which was so important to the national impression of his talents and resources.
But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts Heaven! Earth! Sea! but what avails apostrophes? with all your elements, wet or dry, ye never compounded so intoxicating a draught.
They say, he even heard the chamade beating in Stralsund next day, and that a Danish frigate had nearly taken him; both which statements are perhaps also a little mythical. Certain only that he vanished at this point into Scandinavia; and general Europe never saw him more. Assassination instigated by the Swedish Official Persons, it is thought.
Several French Battalions, who some say were a Corps de Reserve, made a Show of Resistance; but it only proved a Gasconade, for upon our preparing to fill up a little Fosse, in order to attack them, they beat the Chamade, and sent us Charte Blanche.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking