The royalists gave a proof during the whole of the Revolution of an incapacity and a narrowness of mind which justified most of the measures taken against them.
The insurrection, which was headed by many of the expelled deputies, would perhaps have succeeded had not the compromising assistance of the royalists caused men to fear the return of the ancien regime.
All this time he was in close communication with the royalists in France, but was much embarrassed by the conflicting policy pursued by the comte d'Artois from England, and was largely at the mercy of corrupt and dishonest agents.
The two Royalists were shot the same evening in the Castle of Colchester.
In 1173 he played an important part in suppressing the rebellion of the English barons, and commanded the royalists at the battle of Fornham.
After Napoleon's defeats in 1813 the hopes of the royalists revived, and Louis issued a fresh manifesto, in which he promised to recognize the results of the Revolution.
When the rupture between king and parliament took place, Lovelace was committed to the Gatehouse at Westminster for presenting to the Commons in 1642 a petition from Kentish royalists in the king's favour.
The pronounced royalists in the Assembly had now dwindled to a scanty hundred.
The revolutionists beat the general alarm, and the royalists the call to arms.
The revolutionists rejoiced in its advent, while the royalists sought to cover it with ridicule.
Jealous of the royalistsassembled in the palace, they wanted to have them sent out.
He relied on the money he had given to Danton and other demagogues, and hoped that the {274} insurrectionary bands would be repulsed by the royalists of the National Guard and the Swiss regiment.
He would not admit that the predictions of the royalists were about to be accomplished in every point, and still desired to hold aloof from the complicities into which revolutions drag the most upright minds and the most honest characters.
If the royalists are there in force, they cause the orchestra to play their favorite airs: Charmante Gabrielle, Vive Henri Quatre!
But how could devoted royalists and men accustomed to discipline be expected to approve the fete of the Swiss of Chateauvieux, for example?
But, in consequence of the instructions issued by the court, the royalists of the National Guard were indisposed to second him in this measure.
In spite of their many weaknesses, the majority of the Assembly were royalists and constitutionalists still.
He thought of the many brave men, victims of his political errors, who on his account had suffered exile and ruin; of the faithful royalists menaced, because of him, with prison and death.
The royalists pursued the same tradition through the revolutionary times.
The royalistswere driven to the extremity of the peninsula.
It contributed to the fall of the monarchy, and still more to the slaughter of the royalists three weeks later.
The Breton rising had failed for the time, and royalists north of the Loire had not recovered from the blow when La Vendée rose.
And with this astonishing result, that the royalists were victorious in every one of them, and captured more than 100 cannon.
The royalistswere wreaking vengeance on their enemies in the south, by what was afterwards known as the White Terror; and they showed themselves in force at Paris.
That was a surer way of destroying royalists en masse than the manoeuvres of a tactician, who was very likely to be humane, and almost sure to be ambitious and suspicious of civilians.
The royalists had displayed their colours, sailing under the British flag, and the British alliance had not availed them.
Not the royalistsbut the king served the royal cause on that 21st of January.
At the same time they showed their want of confidence in the republican feeling of the country, and both exasperated the royalists and gave them courage to act for themselves.
The allusion was so clear that the royalists were reduced to silence.
The royalists did not at first perceive that the monarchy was at an end.
At this critical point a secret Council was held, at which the royalists advised the king to take refuge in the provinces.
Lionel Gatford (who acted as chaplain to the Royalists during the siege of Pendennis) preached Sir Henry Killigrew's funeral sermon, which is described in a MS.
An armistice was granted on May 30th, for the Royalists needed food and did not realize that Garibaldi's ammunition was exhausted.
Paris was tumultuous with resistance when the news came that Royalists and Huguenots had raised their standards in the same camp and massed two armies.
Still this action was far from being one of the most fatal as to loss of life, fought in that county; the rebel dead were numbered only at 400, and the royalists killed and wounded at less than half that number.
Attacked by the royalists they retreated towards this pass, were hotly pursued, and then turned on their pursuers.
But the royalists were not idle, and when, on the fourth morning Cade attempted as usual to enter London proper, he found the bridge of Southwark barricaded and defended by a strong force under the Lord Scales.
We have followed him some way on his march; but it would appear, that inasmuch as the Royalists had been rather improvident of their supplies, and had been found, during the life of Henry III.
The forces of the Royalists was not sufficiently numerous to invest the city entirely; and the troops of Mayenne following from Picardy soon placed such a number of men within the walls as to set farther attack at defiance.
The Royalists tried to cover his stammerings with the luckless hail of "Long live the king!
The Royalists being dull enough to persist, the patriots overwhelmed them with "No, no, no; no other ruler than the nation!
Here, as in the rooms, when the Royalists managed to get up a shout of "Long live the king!
The Royalists were delighted, for, to tell the truth, they had carried the day.
A destructive fire, however, was still kept up on the royalists by a few of the rebels stationed on the walls of the mansion, under the command of John Wright.
The royalists were headed by Sir Richard Walsh, who was attended on the right by Sir John Foliot, and on the left by Topcliffe.
Calling to Christopher Wright, who was standing near him, to follow him, and rushing towards the court-yard, he reached it just as the royalists gained an entrance.
Regardless of any risk he might run, he shouted to those near to follow him, and made such a desperate charge upon the royalists that in a few minutes he was by the side of his friends, and had liberated them.
Meantime, the drawbridge was lowered, and with loud and exulting shouts the great body of the royalistscrossed it.
I doubt if ourroyalists will go into that kind of mining," remarked Vinet, laughing.
A solicitor, named Sinot, who numbered all the royalists of Arcis among his clients, and who had not gone to the Giguet meeting, now detached himself from the group, and running to the door of the Marion house rang the bell violently.
The royalists of La Vendée publish a manifesto, against whom the convention orders twenty thousand men to march.
The royalists attack the camp of St. Barb; forced to retreat.
The royalists of La Vendée take the island of Noirmoutier.
The royalists near Saumur take the flying artillery of the republicans.
Garnier de Saintes addresses from the tribune the royalists of France.
Under these majestic oaks and cedars Cromwell and Ireton had stood while the beaten Royalists lashed their horses on to Brentford.
Then he placed himself on the plain of Carabobo, where Bolívar, in 1814, had defeated the royalists commanded by Cagigal and Ceballos.
As we have said, his decision in this matter was based, among other things, on the realization that the freedom of Colombia was in constant danger while the royalists occupied Perú.
Several proofs are recorded of his clemency in spite of his threats; but at last, when he saw that there was no other way to bring the royalists to terms, he ordered that war be waged mercilessly.
The royalists escaped to Maracaibo and, on the 14th of June, Bolívar was in Trujillo, reorganizing the province.
The royalists occupying Pamplona and neighboring towns evacuated their possessions upon learning of the defeat of the royalists of Cúcuta.
The royalists had left Lima as soon as they learned of the defeat of Junín.
Boves decided to take this position and, in the middle of the combat, the independents on the plain discovered that a large column of royalists had stolen towards the ammunition depot from the opposite side of the hill.
Up to this time the revolution had been peaceful and bloodless, but now the royalists of Valencia, a very important city to the west of Caracas, rebelled against the new institutions and asked help from the governors of Coro and Maracaibo.
In Cúcuta the royalists were committing all kinds of brutal deeds.
Women and children were the victims of the royalists in a number of cities.
His deposition was not well received by the chiefs of the guerrillas, who were fighting the royalists in the interior.
But royalists and court slaves alledge, that such a covenant obliges the king to God, but not to the people at all: so that he is no more accountable to them, than if he had none at all.
Surely our royalists and loyalists would not condemn this; and yet in justifying it, they should condemn their beloved principle of uncontrouled subjection to uncontroulable sovereigns possessing the government.
The Levellers had boldly avowed their object; the royalists worked in the dark and by stealth; yet the council by its vigilance and promptitude proved a match for the open hostility of the one and the secret machinations of the other.
The Levellers and royalists maintained that he was strangled by order of Cromwell.
Monk had now spent more than two months in England, and still his intentions were covered with a veil of mystery, which no ingenuity, either of the royalists or of the republicans, could penetrate.
Afterwards, on the termination of the war, the great majority of the royalists were admitted to make their compositions with the committee.
The royalists were thus thrown into irremediable confusion.
With the most loyal intentions, the Port-Royalists unwisely edited too much.
It pained the good Port-Royalists to see their late gifted pupil, now out of their hands, inclined to write plays.
Whereas the Port-Royalists had suppressed to placate the Jesuits, Condorcet suppressed to please the "philosophers.
The Royalists were defeated, and the castle was ultimately "slighted" by the victors.
Colonel Laugharne and two other Royalistsnamed Powell and Poyer.
Two hundred Royalists were confined in the building at the time, and these, with their guards, all perished.
They sold well; the Royalists bought them as sad and precious relics; the Puritans as mementos of their triumph.
He was now frequently employed in carrying despatches between the king and the royalists in England.
During the struggles between the Royalists and Covenanters the city was impartially plundered by both sides.
That reign is the time to which the Ultra-Royalists refer as the Golden Age of France.
It was at first contemplated that he should marry some princess of the Bourbon family, and thus add to the stability of his throne by conciliating the Royalists of France.
It was subsequently ascertained, greatly to the surprise of Napoleon and of all Europe, that the Royalists were the agents in this conspiracy.
The Royalists drew to a head at Strathbogie, some eleven miles off, and resolved to disperse their opponents.
The Covenanting party was about twelve hundred strong, and the Royalists about eight hundred, but the latter had four brass cannon, which very materially strengthened them as an attacking force.
The Royalists could not forget that the father of the princes had taken the title of Egalité, had renounced all feudal privileges, had voted for the death of the king, and had placed himself at the head of the democratic movement in France.
The emigrant royalists who had taken refuge there ostentatiously displayed their detestation of the democratic prince.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "royalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
