Search the scanned history of knowledge.

ARMISTICE (from Lat. arma, arms, and titter e, to »top), a suspension of hostilities by mutual agreement between two nations at war, or their respective force*. An armistice may be either general or particular; in the first case there is a complete cessation o ...

... d the point with him, dad, the better to turn his arguments, descended from the ARMISTICE— ARMOIRE supralaptarian to the infralapurian position, i.r. made the di\ in< I Hi prrrcde .in. I ilrirrminc, succeed the Fall. This seemed (u the high Calvinists of Holla ...

... l Philibert himself against the French. At last in 1558 the powers agreed to an armistice, and in 1559 the peace of Cateau-Cambresis was made, by which Emmanuel regained his duchy, but on onerous terms, for France was to occupy several Piedmontese fortresses, ...

... rt time previously on the Deveboyun heights; it was occupied by them during the armistice (;th of February 1878) and restored lo Turkey after the treaty of Berlin. In i8$oa severe earthquake doiroycd much of the town, and another in November 1901 caused much d ...

... ely the menace of Prussian intervention that persuaded Napoleon to conclude the armistice of Villafranca (July n, 1859), which, contrary to his agreement with Victor Emmanuel, left Venice to the Austrians. In spite of the peace of Zurich (November 10), indeed, ...

... 71 to General Vinoy, retaining the presidency of the government until after the armistice in February. He was elected to the National Assembly by eight departments, and sat for Morbihan. In October he was elected president of the council general for Morbihan. ...