Truces are conventions, by which, even during the continuance of war, hostilities on each side cease for a time.
But in the petty truces among each other, presents are scarcely expected, except they be claimed by the more powerful party as a matter of tribute.
It is hardly necessary to add that these truceshave rarely been observed by the wily savages longer than [Pg077] the time necessary for the disposal of their plunder.
Truces were established and men who had been engaged in trying to kill each other came out of opposite trenches and fraternised.
In all the multitude of truces that occurred at Christmas, 1914, I have not seen a single case of German treachery reported.
A series of truces was arranged which, if seldom well kept, at least avoided war on a grand scale.
In such circumstances it was not hard to arrange truces from time to time, so that from 1243 to the end of the reign there were no open hostilities.
Prolonged truces gave him little opportunity of trying his skill as a soldier, and his domestic rule was not particularly successful.
Triumphant over the minor chiefs, he could reckon upon the support of every Welsh tenant of a marcher lord, and at last grew strong enough to disregard the truces and wage open war against the marchers.
Formal truces were more than once made, but they were ill observed, and each violation of an armistice involved some loss to Edward and some gain to Robert.
He plunged into a war with this clever and shifty prince, which lasted--with certain short breaks of truces and treaties--till his death.
But the main forces on both sides were not brought into action till the series of truces ran out in 1355.
Within the town, Anabaptists fought with the combined Evangelicals and Romanists, and on two occasions the tumults were succeeded by truces which guaranteed full liberty of worship to all persons (Jan.
So dreaded was the quiet-visaged intriguer, so unalterably given to violence and the taking of lives, that his exile had been the condition precedent to all negotiations for truces and peace.
Sometimes there were days of quiet and even brief informal trucesat certain sections of the front, when the open rice-fields became a common playground.
Their different allies in the League were coming up with troops to join them, including even some of those who, after having suffered reverses in Auvergne, had concluded truces with the king.
Local and temporary truces were accepted, and agents of the king had conferences with others from the chiefs of the League.
Early in 1227, however, they quarrelled, when a show of force and favorable terms brought them in one by one; shorttruces were made with Henry III.
Truces were at this time concluded between the kings of France and England, for one year only, and were proclaimed at the accustomed places.
The truces between England and France, from the Grandes Chroniques.
The fact does not take away from the pleasure of convalescence; but still one hears in it the shuttle of destiny, and death seems to be nearing rapidly, in spite of the halts and truces which are granted one.
The human heart, like kings, signs mere truces under a pretence of perpetual peace.
Practically their only truces are on market-days, which occur at stated intervals, usually twice a week.
There are very rare instances of the market-day trucesbeing broken.
She says, that after the affair of Pylos[319] she came to you unbidden to bring you a basket full of truces and that you thrice repulsed her by your votes in the assembly.
Aye, you deem yourself happy, when I shall have handed you the truces of thirty years.
This was, to some extent, heightened by the fact that the terms of many of the truces specifically permitted those who had suffered losses on either side to pursue their plunderers across the border.
Each host entertained the highest admiration for the bravery and magnanimity of the other, and in their occasional truces met upon the most friendly terms.
Such trucesafford opportunities for nations to settle their disputes by negotiation.
In 1409 a body of Welshmen poured ravaging into Shropshire; many of the English towns had fallen into Glyndwr's hands; and some of the Marcher Lords made privatetruces with him.
Beaufort's diplomatic ability was seen in the truces he wrung from Scotland, and in his personal efforts to prevent the impending reconciliation of the Duke of Burgundy with the French king.
Consequently truces were frequently arranged, except at the times fixed on for battles.
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