In order to carry out this pacifist policy the Estates of Holland now resolved to effect a large reduction of expenditure by disbanding a portion of the troops and ships.
Among these was the disbanding of some of the military forces, including a part of the body-guard.
She demanded the punishment of all who had taken part in her arrest, the disbanding of the free corps, and the purging of the various Town Councils of obnoxious persons.
In England, where jealousy of a standing army had always been strong, he was less successful, and Parliament insisted on the disbanding of many thousands of seasoned troops.
The special mission, namely, the disbanding of the army, and the aid to Cuban soldiers willing to lay down their arms and go to work, was then discussed.
At that Cyrus rose at last and said: "Gentlemen, I am well aware that the disbanding of our forces must mean the decrease of our power and the increase of theirs.
And therefore it was that I took it upon me to speak with Hystaspas myself, and ask him if he knew what was in your mind about the disbanding of the army.
Further, it had to be taken into account that, when existing debts were added to the necessary cost of disbanding the army, a burden of debt, amounting to about two millions and a half, would have to be met.
He did not conceal from himself the danger that the disbanding involved.
The gentlemen of the committee seemed perfectly satisfied of the necessity of disbanding the army on principles of economy, but opposed to it on principles of policy, in which the Secretary of Foreign Affairs joins with them.
Mr Gorham and Mr Hamilton, two members of a committee of Congress for conferring with the Secretary of War, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and myself, relative to disbanding the army, met this morning.
Disbanding the army in a manner satisfactory to them and to the country, is doubly desirable, and although extremely difficult, is I believe practicable.
This anticipation amounts to a greater sum now than it did then, and a very considerable addition must be made at thedisbanding of the army.
That the period of my official existence was nearly arrived; that disbanding the army in a manner satisfactory to them and the country was doubtless desirable.
The conclusion of the conference is, that I am to state the reasons resulting from the situation of our finances, which induce an immediate disbanding of the army, in writing to the committee.
Political and military motives for disbanding the army immediately.
The arrangements taken on that subject are of such a nature, that I conceive the disbanding of the army need not be delayed until the settlement is completed, because the proper officers may be kept together, although the men be dismissed.
The Secretary at War said little, and I related an observation which he had made to me a few days before in favor of disbanding the army directly, viz.
Our troops are every day disbanding and returning home, and the greatest part of the French have evacuated the neighbourhood of Geneva.
We are gradually withdrawing and disbanding our militia.
From what remained of the three last articles, the three volumes of his discourses, which have appeared since his decease, were collected.
They are acknowledged to possess great merit; the morality of them is entitled to great praise; the discourse on conversation shows a considerable knowledge of life and manners.
In July my brother wrote an open letter of farewell, disbanding the division for which there had been tentatively so many volunteers.
In this passage we have the breaking up of the congregation and the disbanding of the victorious army.
The disbanding of the contingent from the tribes across Jordan (xxii.
On her recovery she concluded to enter upon the same work in the eastern department, but the return of peace, and the disbanding of a large portion of the army rendered her services in the hospitals no longer necessary.
Disbanding the greater part of his forces, therefore, he ordered them to withdraw to their homes, and, after the labors of the field were over, to return and resume the blockade of the capital.
The great object of his mission had been thus accomplished; and, as a new government was now organized, they called on him to show his obedience to it, by disbanding his forces, and withdrawing to the unmolested enjoyment of his estates.
He kept the chief in his service until he could find an opportunity ofdisbanding his undisciplined followers.
Is it believed that axioms in metaphysics, declarations of right, harangues from the tribune, will put a stop to the disbanding of an army?
Bazire demanded the disbanding of the King's guard, which, according to him, was made up of servants of the emigres, and refractory priests.
Yes," replied the Queen, "but the few partisans who still adhere to the King in the Assembly counsel him to sanction the decree disbanding them, and to disregard their advice is to run the risk of losing them.
The only thing left to do before giving the signal for a riot was to obtain from the King a last concession,--the disbanding of his guard.
The same spirit of unrest was shown in the difficulties encountered in enforcing the Ordinance for Disbanding the militia.
The disbanding too of troops, which was caused by the penury of the royal exchequer, united with the licence of the soldiery who remained to quicken the national sense of wrong.
They are in favor of disbanding the Colored regiments, and, armed with the Fugitive Slave Law, sending them back to their masters!
That side of the House are in favor of continuing the Fugitive Slave Law, and of disbanding Colored troops.
Previous to the Reformation the efforts of churchmen on the Continent to reform convent life had led in several instances to the disbanding of a convent.
The voluntary or involuntary absence of the abbess in times of warfare supplies quite a sufficient reason for the disbanding of the nuns.
He said that by resigning and disbanding the convent bloodshed would be averted, and he spoke in praise of the new preacher.
Many things combined to render the dissolution of conventual establishments and the disbanding of the religious more terrible to nuns than to monks.
A story is preserved showing how interference from without led to thedisbanding of a nunnery.
The pretorian guards he alarmed with apprehensions of danger and unworthy treatment; disbanding many of them occasionally as disaffected to his government, and favourers of Nymphidius.
Yes," said the captain, "and it was in this old house that Washington wrote his address to the officers of whom we were speaking a while ago, and a circular letter addressed to the Governors of all the States on disbanding the army.
He says that in Newburgh, at the time of the disbanding of the army, Colonel Cochran was standing in the street penniless, when Steuben tried to comfort him by saying that better times would come.
He left a letter for the commander of the army, a Frenchman, Lord Feversham, which that general took to be an order for the disbanding of the forces, which finally put everything into the greatest disorder.
As the armies passed it must have been impossible to forget--as in reading of the spectacle we constantly remember--the disbanding of the army of the Revolution.
Summoning the whole board of magistrates into the townhouse, he gave them all notice to quit, disbanding them like a company of mutinous soldiery, and immediately afterwards appointed a fresh list of functionaries in their stead.
But the mischiefmakers and the ill-disposed had been seeking everywhere to counteract these wholesome measures and to bring about a general disbanding of these troops.
Less than three weeks afterwards the States-General issued a decree formally disbanding the Waartgelders; an almost superfluous edict, as they had almost ceased to exist, and there were none to resist the measure.
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