It was true, as the French general proclaimed, that Rome had kept the stipulations of the armistice neither in a pacific behavior nor in the payment of her indemnity, and was fomenting resistance to the French arms throughout the peninsula.
Rome had made the armisticeof Bologna merely to gain time, and in the hope of eventual disaster to French arms.
On the twenty-seventh the Sardinians, isolated in a mountain amphitheater, and with no prospect of relief from their discomfited ally, made overtures for an armistice preliminary to peace.
It was believed that Pichegru had purposely palsied his own and Jourdan's abilities, and the needless armistice he made with Austria went far to confirm the idea.
The duke, therefore, was graciously allowed to purchase an armistice by an enormous but yet possible contribution of two million francs in money, together with provisions and horses in quantity.
An armistice was concluded between Tithraustes and Agesilaus, who left the southern satrapy and again invaded Phrygia, which he ravaged until the following spring.
After the conclusion of the armistice he was left in command of the German army of occupation, a position which he held till the fall of the Commune.
In this time after the Armistice it was by a naked effort of the will that he held his ground.
Armistice and the men's return were heralded by outdoor tea-parties with ropes stretched across the streets for safety.
We had cut the enemy's main line of communications and nothing but a surrender or an armistice could save his army from complete disaster.
An armistice would not hinder military movements or preparations, serving merely as a truce while peace was discussed.
What is this long silence, all this crowd in London streets, two years after the armistice and peace?
All on the move, as the armistice which General Buller was trying to arrange with Chris Botha is up, the latter replying: "Our heavy guns and Mausers are our own and will be moved at our convenience; the armistice is over.
There was, accordingly, anarmistice from that day everywhere in the two States for the burghers under the command of such officers.
During the following three days there was an armistice in order to enable the enemy to get their women, children, and non-combatants out of Ladysmith into the Intombi Camp, between the town and Bulwana.
He thought an armistice of six days should be asked of the English in order to enable us to consult our Government.
They resolved again to ask Lord Kitchener that a member of our Deputation should be allowed to come over to us, and that an armistice should be agreed to, to enable us to consult the People.
When more than two years had elapsed from the time of the Armistice a considerable part of Yugoslavia's frontiers remained undecided.
It is significant that there was no rise in the prices charged in the public restaurants of Rieka, and that persons living outside the line of Armistice found it cheaper to do their shopping in the besieged city.
Shortly after I arrived in Paris the Armistice was declared.
After the Armistice one did not see every Serb, Croat and Moslem in Bosnia forthwith forgetting all the evil of the past.
Are they on that account your property, and are we to consider as a dead-letter the clauses of the Armistice which settled that Pola should be occupied by the Allies?
The colonel of the Italian regiment which had been stationed for some days at Vrhnica informed the mayor of that commune that he had received orders to depart; he retired to the line of demarcation fixed by the Armistice conditions.
This caused the Germans to send through Zurich most indignant telegrams to the Entente Press, denouncing the Yugoslavs for having flagrantly crossed the Armistice line by 10 kilometres (cf.
It was in April that the Germans began nearly every day to fire on the Yugoslav troops, regardless of the Americans, who said that any infringement of the Armistice would be severely punished.
When the terms of the Austro-Piedmontese armistice were announced in the Chamber at Turin they aroused great indignation, but the king succeeded in convincing the deputies that they were inevitable.
An armistice was accordingly signed at Cormons on the 12th of August; Austria handed Venetia over to General Leboeuf, representing Napoleon; and on the 3rd of October peace between Austria and Italy was concluded at Vienna.
The king was now informed, and on the 8th Generals Vaillant, Della Rocca and Hess met at Villafranca and arranged an armistice until the 15th of August.
The Austrian general, Melas, signed an armistice whereby he was to retire with his army beyond the river Mincio.
On the 6th of August Radetzky re-entered Milan, and three days later an armisticewas concluded between Austria and Piedmont, the latter agreeing to evacuate Lombardy and Venetia.
On the 22nd Prussia, without consulting Italy, made an armistice with Austria, while Italy obtained an eight days' truce on condition of evacuating the Trentino, which had almost entirely fallen into the hands of Garibaldi and his volunteers.
By the time the armistice came, the game had got too hot.
In fact, it was only after the armistice that we began to learn something of the immense scope of their operations.
I had intended to become a land girl, a postwoman, and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career--but the Armistice intervened!
Then I got stuck in Egypt till the Armistice happened, kicked my heels there some time longer, and, as I told you, finally got demobbed.
A definite advance has been made since the Armistice and, if all goes well, a very much greater one will be made during the next two or three years, and in ten years mercantile air services will be operating on a self-supporting basis.
At theArmistice of the twelve types--Avro, Bristol Fighter, Sopwith Snipe, S.
The period since the Armistice has been employed in the reduction and consolidation of the Royal Air Force.
The only torpedo machine employed at the Battle of Jutland was a Sunbeam fitted with a 14-inch torpedo, and it was not until just before the Armistice that a squadron of torpedo aircraft was ready for operations with the Grand Fleet.
The years following the Armistice have witnessed the conversion of military machines and the development of new designs for commercial purposes.
Since the Armistice the operational work of the Royal Air Force on behalf of the Navy has been conducted under the auspices of the Admiralty.
Taylor argued in favor of the armistice that it bound the hands of the Mexicans during the time needed by him for preparations to advance (Ho.
Taylor defended the armistice on the ground also that he needed time to bring up cannon, ammunition and provisions (=169=to Crittenden, Oct.
He was the American soldier who was shown to the comrades at Kodish on the river bridge after Armistice Day.
But the "B" and "D" Company men were too busy on Armistice Day to listen to rumors of world peace.
So the Bolsheviks on Armistice Day, November 11, began their counter offensive movement which was to merge with their heavy winter campaign.
Of course every place where two American soldiers or officers exchanged words on Armistice Day, or the immediate days following, the chief topic of conversation was the possible effect of the armistice upon our little war.
The poilus had heard of the proposed armistice on the Western Front.
How could armistice terms be extended to it without a tacit recognition of the Lenine-Trotsky government?
It had been in the early weeks of winter during the time that Captain Heil with "E" Company and the first platoon machine gunners were holding the Emtsa bridge line, that the Bolsheviki almost daily tried out their post-armistice propaganda.
Engineers were skillfully and heartily at work on the blockhouses and gun emplacements and log shelters for this Kodish force, doomed to a desperate winter, armistice or no armistice.
During the armistice Prussia and Russia not only greatly reinforced their troops, but received valuable assistance from Great Britain, Sweden, and above all Austria.
The very day on which the news of the armistice arrived witnessed the departure of the greatest single armament ever sent out fully equipped from the shores of Great Britain.
On June 4 an armisticewas actually concluded at Poischwitz to last until August 1, and a neutral zone was provided to separate the combatants.
Feeling herself betrayed by the conference she gave notice on August 1 that the armistice which had existed since the previous November would terminate on the 4th.
This they refused to grant on the ground that the Turks had been the aggressors, and they in their turn demanded an armistice between the Turkish troops and the Greek insurgents.
It might be urged that all the Greeks who had accepted the armistice imposed by the powers in consequence of the treaty of London had a right to share in the settlement at which that treaty aimed.
The second part began with the arrival of Napoleon on the scene of action towards the end of April and lasted to the conclusion of an armistice on June 4.
Early in 1827 the three powers demanded an armistice from Turkey, and, on the refusal of the Porte, signed the treaty of London for the settlement of the Greek question.
Her army retreated into Bohemia, and on July 12 an armistice was signed at Znaim in Moravia, which formed the basis of a peace concluded at Vienna on October 14.
An armistice with the Porte was concluded on October 15.
Suddenly, just when things were looking blackest, on the 17th of July the Chinese ceased firing, and a sort of informal armistice secured a period of respite for the beleaguered Europeans.
No satisfactory terms, however, could be arranged, and the negotiations ended in only an armistice being agreed to, by which Chile remained in occupation of the Bolivian seaboard pending a definite settlement at some future period.
By the terms of the armistice of 1883 between Chile and Bolivia, a three years' notice had to be given by either government wishing to denounce that agreement.
It looked well on paper, but the armistice of Villafranca spoilt everything.
Russia didn't stop thinking, and after the armistice you watch America begin to use its brain.
I mean, with the armistice murder ceased to be praiseworthy.
Bleak, you're a newspaper man, just get hold of the United Press and let them know the armistice is signed.
We'll offer Father an armistice and talk things over with him.
Sidenote: France and Peace] Before Mary's death, an armisticewas in operation.
The ingenious Lord Dacre however by sheer bluff--there is no other word-- succeeded in procuring an armistice when the English border was all but defenceless.
No one knows how many are alive and well today who would have been sleeping in unknown and unmarked graves had the armistice been detained a single week.
When the armistice was signed hundreds of tons of that gas were ready for use and on the way to the battle front.
It was opened up to the public soon after the armistice was signed and the writer saw it while attending the Peace Conference.
The armistice had not been signed at the time, was not signed for some days after.
They reached London eight days later, a week after the battle had been fought, when London was interested no longer in anything but the armistice negotiations.
The Turks were in full retreat on Constantinople when the armistice and Treaty of San Stefano put an end to the war.
And when armistice negotiations were in progress he kept separate from his Cabinet as well as from his army.
If, then, the mediators wish sincerely to establish the peace they propose, they should prefer a truce of many years to a simple armistice for one year.
This Article includes two objects equally important; an armistice and a statu quo.
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