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To the argument that the French had beheaded their king, he drily replied that the English had once done the same; and he decisively refused to allow the ships to be molested.

From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

Charles II, son of the Charles I they had beheaded, was voluntarily replaced upon the English throne.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

He was leading a victorious army toward Poland, he had beheaded the traitorous Patkul, and everything was bowing before him.

From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt

IN the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed to reign.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Conway, Moncure Daniel

Lilly was a spy of the Parliament, yet at the Restoration professed to disclose the fact that Cornet Joyce had beheaded Charles.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter