In 1042 he insisted that the "truce of God" should be proclaimed and observed in Normandy.
No sooner was the truce at an end which then existed between France and England, than Henry himself proceeded to Southampton to take the command of his army in person.
Some proceedings, on the part of the new monarch, were regarded as a signal to break the truce which had subsisted for a short time between the English and the French.
Before this truce was at an end, the Carthaginian populace plundered some Roman vessels with provisions, which were wrecked off Carthage, and even insulted the Roman envoys who came to demand reparation.
At the expiration of the truce he distinguished himself by the defence of Dinan, and here he engaged in single combat with Sir Thomas Canterbury.
This, for the time, produced a better feeling, though the truce was not of long duration.
After agreeing to a truce for nine months, he returned home with his wife and son, and after a stormy passage, landed at Sandwich on October 12.
It was, probably, in the early years of this truce that Captain Miles Standish, a born fighter, went back to England to battle for his heritage.
This was simply a manoeuvre to gain time, as during the truce they could carry off the corn by day as well as night.
Of truce we will beseech thee Until that it be Sunday noon:[15] And if we may not recovered be, We will deliver the town.
Clearchus returned answer once again in the same words: "Truce if we stop, but if we move forwards or backwards war.
I say, as I 21 reasoned thus, there were times when I dreaded the truce more than I now dread war.
Parties also from the mountaineers came down and pleaded with Xenophon himself, to help arrange a truce for them.
After this, not many days had idly slipt away before the Thracians from the mountains came down and wished to arrange with Seuthes for 12 terms oftruce and hostages.
Clearchus inquired "whether the truce was offered to the individual men merely as they went and came, or to all alike.
They reported that "the message seemed reasonable to the king; they had now come bringing guides who, if a truce were arranged, would conduct them where they would get provisions.
Until I come again, let the truce continue, and we will furnish you with a market.
Clearchus made answer: "As long as we stay here there is truce, but a step forward or a step backward, the truce ends; there is war.
Lee replied that he feared such an arrangement would lead to misunderstanding, and proposed that in future, when either party wished to remove their dead and wounded, a flag of truce be sent.
General Meade being informed that a flag of truce was outside his pickets with a letter to me, at once sent out and had the letter brought in without informing the officer who brought it that I was not present.
Notice was at once given by him to General Johnston for the termination of the truce that had been entered into.
Refreshed by the three days' truce the Turks fought harder than ever, and hour by hour pressed nearer into the town.
When the Christian Knights saw the Sultan, he repeated his terms, and informed them that at the end of the truce he must have an answer.
After this occurrence, there was a long truce between the people of Newport and the officers of the British navy.
The flag of truce that bore the summons carried also the threat, that, unless the Americans laid down their arms without resistance, the fort would be stormed, and all therein put to the sword without mercy.
Some days later, an officer, sent with a flag of truce to the British fleet, vastly chagrined the officers there by repeating their remarks overheard by the guard-boat officers who joined the British flotilla in the dark.
The evening papers talk of a flag of truce and a heavy swell which has prevented the ships from firing.
We were, however, taken in in England, just as Arabi was taken in at Cairo, by the treacherous truce Malet and Colvin had agreed to, and did not suspect its hollowness.
China was in the position of France in the years preceding Philippe-Auguste, excepting that there were no places of sanctuary and no Truce of God.
And yet I am unwilling to break a truce of so many years' standing!
The Roman Government resolved to take advantage of this truce to get rid of the Neapolitan army.
The king expressed his own decided preference for a truce rather than a peace, and his conviction that Jeannin had made the suggestion by command of his sovereign.
They were, however, willing to favour peace for Europe andtruce in the tropics, provided the States bound themselves; on the expiration of the limited period, to abandon the Indian and American trade for ever.
The Advocate, with much earnestness, and with more violence than was habitual with him, insisted on protracting the temporary truce until the end of the year.
The secret object of Spain was for a truce of years.
It was agreed that the various points of negotiation should be taken up in regular order; but the first question of all that presented itself was whether the conferences should be for a truce or, a peace.
He would not, on that account, however, counsel to the States obstinacy upon the subject, if Spain refused peace or truce except on condition of their exclusion from the traffic.
It was now suggested by the States' commissioners that a peace; with free navigation, might be concluded for Europe, and a truce for other parts of the world, without any stipulations as to what should take place on its termination.
Such a trucewas more fatal than any conflict, than any amount of slaughter.
After a few minutes there was a truce to embraces and inarticulate exclamations.
Even this day of sacred sorrow had not stopped the massacre, for the lay war knows nothing of the Truce of God.
They rode out into the hills several Sundays on their wheels, and Martin had ample opportunity to observe the armed truce that existed between Ruth and Olney.
In desperation, all but ready to surrender, to make a truce with fate until he could get a fresh start, he took the civil service examinations for the Railway Mail.
I may here mention that before the fight commenced a flag of truce came from the enemy, and asked for me.
They called a truce to assert that they had never really been at war, the hostile interlude being merely the amusements of mercenaries.
Schurman from having their leaders come in under flags of truce to parley.
A long pause ensued, constituting a truce to recriminations and vituperations for several minutes, and affording the pair leisure for reflection.
Even the efforts of the National Government at Nanking to make a truce with the Japanese in order to continue the drive against the Communists failed to still the widespread clamor for unification.
Gradually the flag of truce was seen through the smoke; the firing ceased, and the cry resounded through the crowd, and was echoed along the streets of Paris, “La Bastile surrenders!
For five hours the attack continued; at five in the afternoon, the French soldiers raised a flag of truce upon the towers.
