semi-suspension

Updated: May 2, 2025

I have managed to get every day into the horse-shoe at the mouth of which the fighting was going on, and yesterday afternoon, when there was a semi-suspension of arms to bury the dead, I went with the ambulances on the debateable land between the two armies. The whole horse-shoe is full of artillery.

Henry Labouchere - Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris