Ever since her famous duel, which the Federals never would allow was a drawn battle, they had elevated the Monitor into a national champion, and prophesied weeping in the South if she and their batteries should meet: few then dared to insinuate a doubt about Charleston's certain fall, when once the Leaguer was fairly mustered for assault.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
Farther back in the midst of the household goods and the wagons, Like to a gypsy camp, or a Leaguer after a battle, All escape cut off by the sea, and the sentinels near them, Lay encamped for the night the houseless Acadian farmers.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
More than all this, there was a school in the town kept by a Catholic, and Adrian van der Werff himself-the renowned burgomaster, who had sustained the city during the dreadful Leaguer of 1574, and who had told the famishing burghers that they might eat him if they liked, but that they should never surrender to the Spaniards while he remained alive-even Adrian van der Werff had sent his son to this very school?
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009