'He was a learned man, but had always been in armies, and knew no other rule but to obey orders.

He told me he had no regard to any law, but acted, as he was commanded, in a military way.' {88} This was the state of matters, when an outrage was committed which gave spirit and determination to the oppressed countrymen, lit the flame of insubordination, and for the time at least recoiled on those who perpetrated it with redoubled force..