Killed while resisting capture - everyone had accepted the report, though they all knew what had really happened.
If people aboard the ship resist capture, they can be lawfully attacked.
It was also evident that they had resisted capture.
This alludes to the city's having resisted capture in the siege of 1689.
Brave resisted capture, suffering several men killed and 14 wounded, before she surrendered.
Women who resisted capture in such situations risked being killed.
For well did Motkin know that the man in black would resist capture to the last.
"Two of the prisoners died while resisting capture," he said.
He stubbornly resisted capture with the last full measure of his strength and ammunition.
Theirs was the first direct explanation of why the Britons did not resist capture.