He had distinctly the best of it in the fighting; he dislodged his adversaries from their chosen positions; and he made prisoners of a considerable number of men.
Many of John Brown's men were killed and he and his surviving companions were promptly made prisoners, tried for treason, convicted and hanged.
More than two thousand men were made prisoners, and somewhat less than that number killed on the walls.
Little less than three thousand men were slain or made prisoners in the camp; considerably more, however, were captured than slain.
Accordingly, there were slain, of the Samnites, sixteen thousand three hundred, and two thousand and seven hundred made prisoners: of the Roman army fell two thousand and seven hundred.
In a few days Sandoval was able to take the field, and by skilful measures he made prisoners of twenty caciques, who had commanded where no less than six hundred Spaniards were slain.
Cortes waited a favourable opportunity, concealed in a wood close by the town, when suddenly rushing out, he made prisoners of ten men and fifteen women.
Thereupon the British infantry advanced and made prisoners of the few Germans left alive in the first line.
The British lost three officers, while large numbers of native soldiers were killed or made prisoners.
As soon as he perceived that, he made a grand charge, broke the horse, and cut to pieces or made prisoners of seven regiments of infantry.
If not, probably more of the men would come on shore to look for them, and would to a certainty be made prisoners, and in all likelihood murdered.
An American officer and twenty men were made prisoners.
Lee was fearful that his comrades, with Hamilton, were killed or made prisoners, for he heard volley after volley fired from the carbines of the enemy, while there was only an occasional response from his friends.
These are the last Representatives who will be made prisoners.
Another decree, again proposed by Berryer, pronounced any one who had outraged the Parliamentary inviolability to be a traitor, and ordered the immediate release of those Representatives who had been wrongfully made prisoners.
But the party under Captain Thornton was suddenly surrounded by a large body of Mexican infantry and cavalry, made prisoners, and taken to Matamoras.
It appears highly probable that, without this reinforcement, they would have all been cut to pieces or made prisoners; their strength was exhausted, as well as their ammunition.
The general and Colonel Lewis were made prisoners.
The father and three sons were made prisoners, but the females of the family were left undisturbed, after the house was plundered of every thing valuable.
Colonel Billenger and Major Frey were made prisoners, and on the evening of the battle they were forced to write a letter to Colonel Gansevoort, which contained many misrepresentations, and a recommendation to cease resistance.
The aroused garrison leaped from their pallets, seized their arms, and rushed for the parade, but only to be made prisoners by the intrepid New Englanders.
Nearly the whole of the Scottish nobles and officers were killed or made prisoners.
Some of his ranks broke and fled, and others remained fighting hardily till they were cut down or made prisoners.
I could not help having some dread lest they should have been attacked during our absence, and if so, I knew that we should at once be made prisoners.
Even should he and his companions escape with their lives, they would, at all events, be made prisoners by the enemy, and I might chance never to meet my old follower again.
My only consolation is that if we escape with our lives, it is the only part of the coast where we should not to a certainty be made prisoners of war.
On the following day that very active officer, Colonel Simcoe, was engaged in a skirmish with the rebels, the result of which was that he made prisoners of an officer and fifteen privates of a militia regiment.
At one time a decree was passed, refusing quarter to such of the allied troops as might be made prisoners; but the French soldiers could not be prevailed on to take a step which must have aggravated so dreadfully the necessary horrors of war.
In fact, he was at that moment in the act of charging the Republican troops, who were all either slain or made prisoners.
There was no time for poetry, it was a case of 'sit tight and ride hard,' or surrender and be made prisoners.
Others had not the endurance left to march back through the bullet-swept zone behind them, and sank down on the kopjes waiting to be made prisoners, because they felt escape was beyond their strength.
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