Division, G: British Minor Expeditions

Excerpt from British Minor Expeditions: 1746 to 1814At that hour a ¿ag of truce arrived at the outposts with a pro position to the effect that the garrison of Lorient should march out with all the honours of war, and be then permitted to disband.General Sinclair, however, having had the most confident assur auces from his engineer officers, after a reconnaissance of the town, that in twenty-four hours they could with the available artillery effect a breach, or lay the town in ashes, rejected these conditions, and insisted on a surrender at discretion. A second ¿ag of truce asking for less severe terms came out three hours after; but the General, relying on the judgment of his engineer officers, would. Listen to no terms but unconditional surrender, and negotiations were forthwith at an end.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.