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To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.
In 1868, however, a truce was called between the companies, and the partnership of Darling, Brown & Sharpe was formed.
Albert was granted a four-year truce early in 1521.
On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.
Pausanias failed to fight for the bodies of the dead, and because he retrieved the bodies under truce ( a sign of defeat ), he was disgraced and banished from Sparta.
The most the Grand Duke of Lithuania could do was to garrison Smolensk and other strongholds and employ his wife Helena, the Tsar's daughter, to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself after the disastrous Battle of Vedrosha ( 1500 ).
During his retreat, the emperor was surrounded and worn down by the Pechenegs, who forced him to sign a truce and pay protection money.
The siege was long and famine broke out in the Christian camp ; the Byzantines and crusades blamed each other for the failure, and a truce was signed with Saladin.
In 1198 he was able to procure a five years ' truce with the Muslims, owing to the struggle between Saladin's brothers and his sons for the inheritance of his territories.
The truce was disturbed by raids on both sides, but in 1204 it was renewed for six years.
Bethlehem — along with Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Sidon — was briefly ceded to the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem by a treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Ayyubid Sultan al-Kamil in 1229, in return for a ten-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders.
John Casimir's heart was not in the fight, and agreed to a truce, the Treaty of Bila Tserkva, with Khmelnytsky, on favourable terms to the Cossacks.
In 1619, his opponent Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was beheaded, and when two years later the truce expired, the West Indian Company was established
Damascus was a major trading centre which abounded in wealth and was under normal circumstances a potential threat, but the rulers of Jerusalem had recently entered into a truce with the city, which they then forswore.
As Baldr was popular amongst the Æsir, after Baldr told the Æsir about his dreams, they met together at the thing and decided it wise to provide a truce for Baldr that would maintain his safety.
After the Finnish non-socialists won the October 1917 Parliamentary elections, they established an informal truce with the Russian Provisional Government, a situation which was completely disrupted by the Bolshevist revolution in October.
A subsequent truce was signed between Muhammad and Henry, preventing the Christian kings from attempting to recover the city.
He was subsequently employed on various papal missions, especially to Germany, but was unsuccessful in preventing the German princes from making a truce with the reformers, or in checking to any extent the progress of the reformers ' doctrines.
In his reign ( 1598 – 1621 ) a ten year truce with the Dutch was overshadowed in 1618 by Spain's involvement in the European-wide Thirty Years ' War.

truce and opposed
One aspect of its leftist policies in this period was that it opposed the war-time truce between the major parties and actively contested Parliamentary elections.
This was opposed by other members of the Blaney family, including all seven children of Neil Blaney and his widow Eva who issued a press release prior to Niall Blaney's decision castigating the Fianna Fáil party and disassociating themselves from any so called ' truce ' with them.
The Duke of York was opposed to Danby's strict enforcement of the penal laws against Catholics, and by April 1675, he had reached out to Shaftesbury to make a truce between them whereby they would be united in opposition to Danby's brand of Anglican royalism.
His and the peasant army opposed each other near Mello on 10 June 1358 when Guillaume Cale, the leader of the rebellion, was invited to truce talks by Charles.
Like the WIL the new party was opposed to the electoral truce of the war years between the Labour and Conservative parties.
During the war the RCP opposed the electoral truce which guaranteed that where parliamentary seats fell vacant they would automatically be filled by another member of the incumbent party.
Although politically opposed to his brother-in-law and the new Duke of Burgundy, Philip, he betrothed Isabella to Charles, Count of Charolais, only legitimate son and heir of Burgundy as a condition of truce.

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A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.
Governor Tryon and the Boys exchanged threats, truce offers, and other writings, which were frequently written by Allen in florid and didactic language, while the Boys continued to drive surveyors and incoming tenants on New York-granted lands away.
If anyone shall violate the truce of God he shall be admonished three times by the bishop to make satisfaction.
Achilles, moved by Priam's actions and following his mother's orders sent by Zeus, returns Hector's body, and promises Priam a truce of twelve days to allow the Trojans to perform funeral rites for Hector.
Although a truce was signed in 441, war resumed two years later with another failure by the Romans to deliver the tribute.
This peace was considered a truce by all sides, thus war was to start again.
After that the Lazic War in the North continued for several years, until a second truce in 557, followed by a Fifty Years ' Peace in 562.
In the winter the crusaders were affected by floods and disease, and the siege dragged on throughout 1219, when Francis of Assisi arrived to attempt to negotiate a truce.
In 1281 the ten year truce expired and was renewed by Roger.
By the time a ceasefire was negotiated on 12 June 1935, Paraguay had seized control of most of the region, as was later recognized by the 1938 truce.
* 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce.
Two years later, the Quraysh violated the truce by slaughtering a group of Muslims and their allies.
The Spartans and Athenians agreed to exchange the hostages for the towns captured by Brasidas, and signed a truce.
An embassy of three cardinals was sent by Calixtus II to Germany, and negotiations for a permanent settlement of the investiture struggle were begun in October 1121 at Würzburg, where it was agreed that a general truce should be proclaimed in Germany, that the Church should have free use of its possessions, and that the lands of those in rebellion should be restored.
He said that Hamas will not recognize Israel and will not feel bound to understand a peace treaty negotiated by Fatah as a recognition of Israel, calling instead for a hudna ( temporary truce ).
Saladin agreed to a truce with Bohemond in return for Muslim prisoners being held by him and then he gave A ' zaz to Alam ad-Din Suleiman and Aleppo to Saif al-Din al-Yazkuj — the former was an emir of Aleppo who joined Saladin and the latter was a former mamluk of Shirkuh who helped rescue him from the assassination attempt at A ' zaz.
The members of these caravans had, in vain, besought his mercy by reciting the truce between the Muslims and the Crusaders, but he ignored this and insulted their prophet Muhammad before murdering and torturing a number of them.
Stephen then agreed to a truce proposed by his brother, Henry of Blois ; the full details of the truce are not known, but the results were that Stephen first released Matilda from the siege and then allowed her and her household of knights to be escorted to the south-west, where they were reunited with Robert of Gloucester.

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