hodson in A Sentence

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    was clearly beyond Hodson's ken.

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    It has been suggested that Hodson lost his nerve upon beholding the crowds.

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    At the city gate, Hodson ordered the three princes to get off the cart.

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    Hodson then took out his gun and himself shot the three unarmed and half-naked princes at point-blank range.

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    Finding the old man extremely frail with exertion, Hodson bid the Emperor take rest under a shady tree and accept refreshment.

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    Hodson explicitly agreed to this, stipulating only that the princes and the motley crowd of villagers should surrender their arms immediately.

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    The next morning, Hodson went to the tomb with one hundred horsemen and demanded the unconditional surrender of the Emperor and princes.

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    After killing the princes, Hodson personally stripped their bodies of jewellery, being the signet rings, turquoise arm-bands and bejewelled swords worn by the three princes.

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    Yet others have suggested that Hodson had made the agreement with the old Emperor in bad faith and that he had never intended to keep his word.

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    Agreement being reached, the Emperor, trusting to the word of Hodson as a British army officer, emerged from the tomb and exchanged greetings in person with Hodson.

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    He therefore sent a message to Hodson offering the surrender of his party on condition that their lives and the lives and the crowd who now surrounded them be spared.

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    As they approached the gates of the city, Hodson found that a crowd of townsmen had gathered in the expectation of witnessing the return of the Emperor and the princes.

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    In all events, the idea that breaching a solemn agreement(guaranteeing only life), which he had made minutes before, upon his word of honour as a British army officer, to an old man much respected by these crowds, would serve to blacken the reputation of the British rather than enhance it, was clearly beyond Hodson's ken.

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