No quarter The phrase no quarter was generally used during military conflict to imply combatants would not be taken prisoner, but killed. According to some modern American dictionaries, a person who is given no quarter is "not treated kindly" or "treated ...

, no mercy shown by a victor, who treats a vanquished opponent very harshly or refuses to spare a surrendering opponent's life. No quarter may also refer to:

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* "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 Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981) was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh, uncle of Auberon Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher. His first wife was Bar ...

*"No Quarter", an episode of the TV series ''

Revolution In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...

'' *No Quarter, a popular modification of the video game '' Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory'' (2003) *"", in English translated as ''"No Quarter"'', a short story by

Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (, ; ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, as well as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives, destin ...

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*''No Quarter'', the motto of the destroyer USS ''Leary'' (DD-879) *'' No Quarter Pounder'', an album by Dread Zeppelin * Ordinance of no quarter to the Irish, a decree passed by the English Parliament in 1644

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