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[5] [6] However, the use of a red flag to signal no quarter does not appear to have been universal among combatants. Black flags have been used to signify that quarter would be given if surrender was prompt; the best-known example is the Jolly Roger used by pirates to intimidate a target crew into surrender. By promising quarter, pirates ...
"No Quarter" (song), a song by Led Zeppelin No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded, an album by Page and Plant named after the above song "No Quarter", a song by Scottish pirate folk metal band Alestorm from their album Black Sails at Midnight; No Quarter, a 1932 book by Alec Waugh "No Quarter", an episode of the TV series Revolution
The Duel is a 2016 American Western film directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith and written by Matt Cook. The film stars Liam Hemsworth , Emory Cohen , Woody Harrelson , and Alice Braga . The film was released for limited release and video on demand on June 24, 2016, by Lionsgate Premiere . [ 1 ]
Duel is a 1971 American road action-thriller [1] [2] television film directed by Steven Spielberg.It centers on a traveling salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) driving his car through rural California to meet a client.
"The Duel" was first serialized in Aleksey Suvorin's newspaper Novoye Vremya from October–November 1891, after which Suvorin edited the novella and published it as a separate edition. The book enjoyed nine re-issues during the 1890s. Chekhov included "The Duel" in Volume 6 of his Collected Works, published by Adolf Marks in 1899–1901. [1] [2]
As it turns out, the captain has secretly given orders that neither weapon be loaded, the resulting lack of a shot blamed on a misfire, and Hornblower comes out of the duel unscathed. Suspecting the truth, Hornblower proposes to challenge the captain to a duel, only to be told that such a challenge would be unlawful. [2]
"The Duel" is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in January–May, 1908. The story was collected in A Set of Six (1908) released by Methuen Publishing. [1] It was adapted as the 1977 film The Duellists, directed by Ridley Scott.
The Duel (Chekhov novel), an 1891 novella by Anton Chekhov; The Duel (Kuprin novel), a 1905 novel by Aleksandr Kuprin; The Duel (Conrad story), 1908 short story by Joseph Conrad "The Duel" (Borges story), a 1970 short story by Jorge Luis Borges; The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, a 2008 book by Tariq Ali