Washington did both: he sent commissioners to meet with the rebels while raising a militia army.
Each church then sends representatives or commissioners to presbyteries and further to a general assembly.
Angus was a commissioner sent to treat with the English twice, in 1449 and in 1459.
Colbert announced that he would send royal commissioners to decide the canal's future.
The US government sent commissioners to negotiate treaties with the tribe in 1851.
Theodosius did, however, send commissioners to Rome in support of his synod.
They sent commissioners at once to the King to beg him to consider this matter, and not throw this help lightly away.
He was one of the commissioners sent to treat with the King at Holmby House in 1647.
I sent commissioners to Washington from Montgomery before the war began, to settle our points of difference with the Federal government.
In 1720 Tailer was one of several commissioners sent to mediate between the settlers and Abenaki.