cessation of arms

After the battle there was a cessation of arms for some days to allow both armies to bury their dead.

The so-called 'cessation of arms' outraged the king's English opponents.

On 17 June there was a general cessation of arms and extensive fraternizing between the two armies.

Two simultaneous operations are involved: in the Soviet departure to the north and the cessation of arms supplies to the guerrillas in the south.

The Spanish king agreed to a cessation of arms in mid-June, but gave no indication of actually yielding.

"He knows that Hun Sen knows you cannot have a cease-fire and cessation of arms without the U.N. plan."

A cessation of arms, although not a final settlement, was agreed in the humiliating Treaty of Ripon, signed in October 1640.

However, even after the British Parliament overruled King George III and ordered a cessation of arms, Washington remained skeptical of British intentions.

During the 1950s, the RIrAF was affected when the monarchy was toppled in 1958 resulting in the cessation of arms imports from western countries such as Great Britain.

Soon after, Essex's campaign ground to a halt with a controversial cessation of arms with O'Neill, and the English commander fled the country to patch up his relations with Elizabeth.

The Journals of the Continental Congress reports that the Confederation Congress issued a proclamation on April 11, 1783, "Declaring the cessation of arms" against Great Britain.

However after the cessation of arms between the Confederates and the Royalists in 1643, allowed Ormonde to send 8,000 troops from Dublin and Munster and aid the King.

In September 1643, the Confederates negotiated a "cessation of arms" (or ceasefire), with James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, the senior general of the royalist army in Ireland.

It was the first significant engagement of forces following the cessation of arms agreed in the previous year between the Irish leader Hugh O'Neill and the English Crown commander, the Earl of Essex.

A3 LOOKING ELSEWHERE FOR ARMS With the cessation of arms aid from Moscow, an era ended in the Afghan war.

"It is understood that ratifications will be exchanged within two weeks, and that they will be followed by a Royal proclamation in which His Majesty will order a cessation of arms by sea and land. '

This party was at enmity with the independents; and in July 1647, after many minor attacks, a proposal was brought forward for Perceval's expulsion from the house, on the ground of his having supported the cessation of arms in 1643.

They were tied up so strictly by their instructions as to have no power to alter even a word in the articles, and only twenty days were allowed them; six to arrange a cessation of arms, and the rest to conclude the treaty.

However, according to John Lodge's Peerage of Ireland: "...dreading the designs of the Irish, he fled into Wales with his wife, several priests, and others, and stayed there till after the cessation of arms was concluded, returning in Captain Bartlett's ship 17 March 1643."

On Sept. 1 Qian Qichen and Eduard Shevardnadze, the Foreign Ministers of China and the Soviet Union respectively, met in Harbin [see pp. 37713-14]and apparently reached an agreement on the mutual cessation of arms supplies to their respective, and opposing, clients in Cambodia.

A cessation of arms was agreed for six weeks to six weeks, until May Day, either side being at liberty to break it on giving fourteen days warning, with liberty to attack O'Neill's confederates if they refused to be bound; restitution for all spoils within 20 days after the warning was also provided for.