 | William Smith - 1815 - 520 pages
...you under subjection to the Crown of England, and when too late, make you wish you had accepted of the favor tendered.— Your answer positive in an...is required, upon the peril that will ensue.* THE Summons was delivered to the Count, at the Chateau, who was surrounded by the Bishop, Intendant, and... | |
 | Alfred Hawkins - 1834 - 548 pages
...French and the Indians, might upon the present occasions prompt to a severe revenge ; yet being desirons to avoid all inhumanity and unchristian-like actions,...Lewis. Finding the place prepared for defence, SIR \VnLLIAM after a fruitless attempt to capture it, on the land side, by an attack on the River St. Charles,... | |
 | George Warburton - 1849 - 478 pages
...unconditional surrender in the name of King William of England, and concluding with this imperious sentence : "Your answer positive in an hour, returned with your...mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue." The British officer who bore the summons was led blindfold through the town and ushered into the presence... | |
 | George Warburton - 1850 - 360 pages
...unconditional surrender in the name of King William of England, and concluding with this imperious sentence : " Your answer positive in an hour, returned with your...mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue." The British officer who bore the summons was led blindfold through the town, and ushered into the presence... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1855 - 676 pages
...make you wish you had accepted of the favour tendered. "Your answer positive in an hour, returned by your own trumpet, with the return of mine, is required, upon the peril that will ensue." The summons being delivered unto Count Frontenac, his answer was : " That Sir William Pliips and those... | |
 | Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1863 - 504 pages
...the subjects' security, which if you refuse forthwith to do, I come provided, and am resolved, by tho help of God, on whom I trust, by force of arms, to...mine, is required, upon the peril that will ensue." *#*#**##*** Finding the place prepared for defence, Sir William, after a fruitless attempt to capture... | |
 | Henry Beaumont Small - 1868 - 238 pages
...under subjection to the Crown of England ; and when too late, make you wish you had accepted the favour tendered. " Your answer positive in an hour — returned...is required — upon the peril that •will ensue." Frontenac was a man of great pride, who resided in the caslle of St. Louis, amidst all the splendour... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - 1875 - 746 pages
...demanding an unconditional surrender, in the name of King William. " Your answer positive in an hour, by your own trumpet, with the return of mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue," — such were the closing words of the summons. The messenger was conducted blindfolded, through the... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1877 - 498 pages
...make you wish you had accepted of the favour tendered. " Your answer positive in an hour, returned by your own trumpet, with the return of mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue." l 1 See the Letter in Mather, Mnynalia, I. 186. The French kept a copy of it, whieh, with an accurate... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 420 pages
...make you wish you had accepted of the favour tendered. " Your answer positive in an hour, returned by your own trumpet, with the return of mine, is required upon the peril that will ensue." When the reading of the letter was finished, the messenger reminded Frontenac that it was ten o'clock,... | |
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... provided, and am resolved, by the help of God, in whom I trust, by force of arms to revenge all wrongs and injuries offered, and bring you under subjection to the Crown of England, and, when too late, make you wish you had accepted of the favour tendered.... 
