Meanings of abandoned the cause in inglês

Yet he never in the most gloomy times abandoned the cause of peace, of liberty, and of toleration.

However, as the embattled region grew more and more to resemble a vast and dangerous open-air asylum, most of the foreigners abandoned the cause.

If we may believe Chateaubriand, Frederick William's great crime, according to Bonaparte the Republican, was this, that he abandoned the cause of the kings.

During the Hundred Days, General de Bourmont, guilty as was Marshal Ney, abandoned the cause of Napoleon as the Marshal had that of Louis XVIII.

[This was Count Mier, charged to guarantee to Murat the possession of his kingdom if he abandoned the cause of the Emperor.

"Accusations will be flying every which way about our not getting apprehended, but the assumption will be that we simply abandoned the cause."