In retaliation Kentucky sent an immense army north of the Ohio, a thousand men volunteering under Clark, the hero of Vincennes.
This and similar rapacious attacks, he justified upon the principle of retaliation for the destruction of private property by the British troops in America.
Yes, retaliation truly," replied Blount; "but Strogoff is a dead man.
Oh, that was fine retaliation for the little affair at Ichim.
The Countess of Caprona had her windows stoned in retaliation one day by a resentful crowd; the wretched girl Lucia was dragged from her bed and suffocated in a muddy ditch.
Let retaliation spell love, for once and for ever, and to the infinite sorrows of life will appear at last their returned Redeemer.
The presumption that, by his own impulsive retort on Bernardo's assailant, he had brought this cowardly retaliation on himself, made not the least of his anguish.
She had readily accepted that great truth: a woman's retaliation to her husband's cruelty is sanctified in the eyes of heaven.
It was immaterial in what light such an act of retaliation as he suggested to her would appear in the eyes of the people of the world.
Logan's family were massacred by a party of whites in the spring of 1774, perhaps under the pretext of retaliation for some Indian murders.
Squires in retaliation threatening Hampton, Major Innes, with a hundred men, was sent down from Williamsburg to defend it.
Deeds of violence and acts of retaliation were as common as the succession of day and night.
The Americans in retaliation attempted to invade Canada, but the result was a disastrous failure.
Some of the radicals insisted upon the adoption of a resolution favoring the opening of the slave trade, in retaliation for the refusal of the North to obey the fugitive slave law.
Scouts swiftly and widely spread over the spirit hunting-grounds knowledge of the glorious opportunity for retaliation and revenge which had come, and hosts of volunteers rushed thence with lightning speed to the alluring scene.
Perhaps ignorance and instinctive retaliation were quite as operative in her as malice.
Being most easily obtained, bull beef is generally all that is sent to market, and thus many a patriarchal bison, dead, accomplishes more in retaliation for his sudden taking-off than the Fates ever permitted him to do in lusty life.
The fifteen men had been murdered by the Indians in retaliation for the murder of their chief and several of his warriors by the English.
The resolution, therefore, for the sake of certainty, and to give double assurance that humanity shall not suffer, ought to be still further amended, by limiting the retaliation to the usages of civilized society.
Congress do not, however, intend by this resolution to limit or restrict the power of the President to the modes or principles of retaliation herein mentioned, but only to advise a resort to them as demanded by the occasion.
I am confident that no authentic record can be shown where such savage treatment has been imitated in retaliation by a Christian power.
I am not opposed to retaliation because it strikes those who are not or may not be guilty of the outrage we wish to put an end to.
I know thatretaliation by inflicting death for death may sometimes be necessary in war.
Let us bring down this general call for retaliation to practical and detailed measures.
This effort against Retaliation attracted attention and sympathy at the time.
Why is it unlawful in retaliation to adopt poison?
I am unqualifiedly against the retaliation resolutions concerning prisoners of war.
That is the terrible character of almost all retaliation in war.
The Law of War can no more wholly dispense with retaliationthan can the Law of Nations, of which it is a branch.
In these Instructions the general law of retaliation is affirmed.
This will beget acts ofretaliation from you; and every retaliation will beget a new revenge.
And let them send no more flags of truce, or we will hang up the messenger in retaliation of the murder of Cornet Grahame.
The German Government have, however, sought to justify their severities on the grounds of military necessity, and have excused them as retaliation for cases in which civilians fired on German troops.
After inflicting this severe retaliation for the injury which De Ruyter had caused by his occupation of the mouth of the Thames, the English fleet returned home.
Only one mode of retaliation could soothe his wounded feelings, and forthwith he adopted it.
It may be readily imagined that such a fierce resistance as that made by the French would provoke a desperate retaliation from the victors.
Indignation and a spirit of fierce retaliation swelled every bosom.
This law, it will be remembered, was passed in March, 1811, in retaliation for the orders in council, and was to cease with the revocation of those orders.
No epithets were too harsh when speaking of each other, and no retaliation seemed too severe.
Cowardice on the one hand andretaliation on the other sum up the episode.
Mutual acts of plunder and retaliation between the Saints and Gentiles became frequent, and they were terrible in their consequences.
These provocations produced their usual consequences: by spearing cattle, and other acts of hostility, a tribe at the Coal River revenged the robbery of their children; surely, a slight retaliation for such incredible wickedness.
The false morality of their journals will be largely ascribed by a calm enquirer to retaliation and hatred, rather than to a judgment corrupted--in reference to the real nature of crime.
The relations of these men naturally led to treachery and revenge, and in the terms of their union retaliation was included.
