Order your men to lay down their arms, and I will guarantee their safety.
Toro was entered suddenly, and a garrison of three hundred men taken by surprise, and forced to lay down their arms.
A large number of the Highlanders were already in arms to support him; but the Committee, having the King in their power, induced him to write to the Highland chiefs requesting them to lay down their arms.
Northern chiefs to lay down their arms, and to submit to the powers that be.
By lending his efforts to restore the blessings of peace to his distracted countrymen, and to induce the deluded rebels to lay down their arms.
He then ordered the drum to beat, and all the men to form in line of marching order, while he requested Mrs Baker to point out any man who should attempt to uncover his lock when he gave the order to lay down their arms.
At last their leader ordered them to lay down their arms, and he came, saying that the river was theirs, and that the English must pay toll for leave to pass.
In the afternoon all the Papal troops were persuaded to lay down their arms, which, in the case of the foreigners, were given back to them.
If these were granted, the insurgents engaged to lay down their arms.
This can only be done by your sending orders to your followers to scatter to their homes and to lay down their arms.
Joyeuse now called on the citizens of Nismes to lay down their arms, to expel all the refugees, and to receive a garrison.
Quiet and peaceable laymen were promised toleration until such time as God should deign to bring them back to the true fold; and pardon was offered to all who within twenty days should lay down their arms.
He warned all lovers of peace not to be astonished at any edicts that might emanate from the royal seal so long as the king remained a prisoner, and he begged Catharine to order the triumvirs to lay down their arms.
And they were ready tolay down their arms so soon as the court could bring itself to concede the restoration of the Edict of Amboise, without the restrictive ordinances and interpretations which had shorn it of most of its value.
Lalande and de Baville, in order to consult them as to the best means of inducing the Camisards to lay down their arms.
Granted: and on condition that all the Huguenots everywhere lay down their arms, the king will permit them to live quietly in the free exercise of their religion.
It would be sad indeed if the burghers were compelled to lay down their arms.
Lord Kitchener: "I do not think so, for if some of the burghers refused to lay down their arms, the signatories could not help it.
Praise of the Emperor is on everyone's lips; The most recalcitrant are obliged to lay down their arms, and to say with the Emperor of Russia, 'He is a man of destiny.
The tumult and slaughter were dreadful and Provera with his whole force were compelled to lay down their arms.
He offered terms to the besieged: "All those who are in no way connected with the acts of Lord Dalhousie, and who are willing to lay down their arms, shall receive a safe passage to Allahabad.
Hodson quietly rode up with a small escort and called on the troops to lay down their arms.
Either you order your troops to lay down their arms, or you will all be put to the sword.
Here we will receive them in fine style, and chase them until they are all dead or lay down their arms.
Now, gentlemen," he faltered out, "give orders to the troops to lay down their arms on the spot now occupied by them.
Most of the burghers thought they were bound by the resolution of General Prinsloo to submit and to lay down their arms.
He further assured the Transvaal Government that even if, in case of an armistice, the people of the Free State were consulted, the resolution of those men who still stood their ground would be not to lay down their arms.
At seven in the morning the Vladimir yunker school was visited by a patrol of soldiers, sailors and Red Guards, who gave the yunkers twenty minutes to lay down their arms.
November 12th, in the evening, Kerensky sent a proposition to the revolutionary troops—“to lay down their arms.
At seven in the morning he sent word to the Second Tsarskoye Selo Rifles to lay down their arms.
From Moscow, word that the yunkers and Cossacks had surrounded the Kremlin and ordered the Soviet troops to lay down their arms.
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