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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News August 22, 1745
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
Count de Saxe threatened no quarter for M. de Dort and his garrison unless they surrendered Tournay and its citadel; the governor replied that being old and blind in one eye, half an eye and a little life were no great sacrifice for one's country.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 98.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 95.67% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.74% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 97.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
The Count de Saxe having threatened M. de Dort, Governor of Tournay, that himself and his Garrison should have no Quarter if he did not surrender the Town and Citadel together, he answer'd, That as he was very old, and had lost the Sight of one Eye, it was a Thing very indifferent to him, half an Eye and a very little Life being no mighty Sacrifice in the Cause of one's Country.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military Campaign
What keywords are associated?
Count De Saxe
Tournay
Surrender
No Quarter
What entities or persons were involved?
Count De Saxe
M. De Dort
Where did it happen?
Tournay
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Tournay
Key Persons
Count De Saxe
M. De Dort