Sentence examples for quartering from inspiring English sources

Both sides shot and hanged prisoners without mercy, and on at least two occasions Patriots enforced the gruesome punishment of hanging, drawing and quartering.

Accommodation for this huge force was found by giving every inn and alehouse the choice of quartering troops or losing their trading licences.

The field of the flag was white with a red cross, and its canton was blue with a red cross quartering four stars.

The other serious quarrel with British authority occurred in New York, where the assembly refused to accept all the British demands for quartering troops.

The remainder of the punishment might include hanging (usually not to the death), usually live disemboweling, burning of the entrails, beheading, and quartering.

Cruel forms of execution in Europe included "breaking" on the wheel, boiling in oil, burning at the stake, decapitation by the guillotine or an axe, hanging, drawing and quartering, and drowning.

For discussion of specific forms of punishment, see capital punishment, flogging, exile and banishment, and drawing and quartering.

Brought to Moscow and tortured, Razin was executed by quartering in Red Square.

This constant military presence and the abuses to individuals and property associated with it not only galvanized colonial opposition to the British but also compelled Thomas Jefferson to specifically admonish King George III in the Declaration of Independence "for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us".

For many years after 1845 the year that Texas was annexed by the United States the Alamo was used by the U.S. Army for quartering troops and storing supplies.

The hanging, drawing and quartering of Stuart Lancaster and his fellow coaches has been under way since Saturday night and those thirsting for blood will expect to see heads on spikes somewhere in the vicinity of Traitor's Gate well before the start of the dead-as-a-dodo game with Uruguay this weekend.