It was blowing gently between the satellite dish and the biggest shrub in the garden like a white flag of surrender. |
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By far the worst feature of this election result is the blind surrender of control of the Senate to the Liberals and Family First. |
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But it would be one step too far to expect them to give up their weaponry as this would be seen as surrender. |
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Will the NGO-led masses be waving white flags of surrender on 2 July in Edinburgh with these wristbands? |
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They did not show the white flag of surrender and they did not come out fighting fairly. |
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Last week in Yarraville, he became the fourth person to be pulled over at random and forced to surrender a saliva sample to the wallopers. |
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Should they raise the white flag of surrender or should they rise up and defend themselves? |
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The alleged treachery of the abbot and monks of Ely after William seized monastic lands is blamed for the ultimate surrender. |
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They had taken two to the chin but there was never any sign of a frantic search for the white flag of surrender. |
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Morale is low in the army and many soldiers are preparing white flags of surrender. |
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He forced them to surrender without a shot being fired and held them prisoner until back-up arrived. |
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The second half was a complete non-event with Listowel raising the white flag of surrender. |
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To increase taxes now would be to raise the white flag and surrender to the poverty lobby. |
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After the Japanese capitulated, the surrender ceremonies for Ocean and Nauru Islands were carried out on her quarterdeck. |
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The assured is then paid the surrender value of the policy, which is calculated by an actuary on the basis of the amounts paid to date. |
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Once surrender became unavoidable, the emperor adroitly metamorphosed into a symbol of cooperation. |
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To fly the white flag and to surrender was not an option for us. |
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The Hashemites will not just surrender power and abscond to South Kensington. |
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He would not surrender, however, until he had a direct order from his commanding officer. |
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I have suffered to the limit of my endurance, but I will never in my sane senses surrender to the evil power that has fixed its roots like a cancer on the world. |
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Bertha Jones said she saw officers chasing the suspect across the street where he jumped an iron gate and put his hands in the air as if to surrender. |
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The day after the surrender, he committed hara-kiri or suicide. |
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Then he stood up and essentially told a cheering Austin crowd that he would never surrender to the president. |
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Mustasim sent a deputation to Hulagu, stalling for time, but it was too late to surrender on favourable terms. |
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But, per Escobar's terms of surrender, the only facility in which he could legally be detained was The cathedral. |
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Heavily damaged, the two French ships were forced to surrender and Nelson took possession of the Censeur. |
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Napoleon had already arrived at Malta and, after a show of force, secured the island's surrender. |
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Nelson, now aboard Foudroyant, was outraged, and backed by King Ferdinand he insisted that the rebels must surrender unconditionally. |
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Total and unconditional surrender was signed on 7 May, to be effective by the end of 8 May. |
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The Allies called for unconditional Japanese surrender in the Potsdam Declaration of 27 July, but the Japanese government rejected the call. |
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On 7 May 1945 at the SHAEF headquarters in Rheims the Allies accepted Germany's surrender. |
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The bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or significantly damage the war economy. |
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Following its surrender to the Allies in 1945, Japan was deprived of all its colonies. |
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The church tower received a battering during the Siege of Newcastle by the Scots who finally breached the Town Wall and forced surrender. |
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The conflict in 1971 witnessed Pakistan's unconditional surrender and a treaty that subsequently led to the independence of Bangladesh. |
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Longchamp capitulated to John after just three days, deciding he had more to gain from surrender than prolonging the siege. |
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William Dugdale, acting as a herald, called for the garrison commander to surrender the castle, but he was refused. |
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Lancelot accepts and uses his boon to demand that Galahaut surrender peacefully to Arthur. |
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They each fired a broadside across its bulwarks, killing several of its crew, and forcing its captain to surrender. |
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In return for the package almost all that was required was to surrender trackside advertising. |
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Leopold and John of Brienne besieged and captured Damietta but an army advancing into Egypt was compelled to surrender. |
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After a week of heavy fighting, primarily in Dublin, the surviving rebels were forced to surrender their positions. |
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To involve the Gaelic nobility and allow them to retain their lands under English law the policy of surrender and regrant was applied. |
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Pinned by a flank attack while making a downhill charge, Strathbogie's army broke and Strathbogie refused to surrender and was killed. |
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In contrast, ships would quickly surrender if they knew they would be spared. |
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At the Battle of Glen Shiel, the Spanish soldiers were forced to surrender to government forces. |
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The Manchester Regiment was left behind to defend Carlisle and after a siege by Cumberland had to surrender, to face hanging or transportation. |
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In September 1780 he attempted to surrender the key American fort at West Point along the Hudson River to the British, but his plot was exposed. |
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With the military faltering and with widespread loss of confidence in the Kaiser, Germany moved towards surrender. |
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The most dangerous moment was the act of surrender, when helpless soldiers were sometimes gunned down. |
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In many areas, people looked for ways to surrender to the approaching Allies, in spite of exhortations of local leaders to continue the struggle. |
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Hearing rumours that Moguy wished to surrender, both Stockwell and Beaufre left their command ship HMS Tyne for Port Said. |
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During the Battle of Nasiriyah, there was an incident where Iraqi irregulars feigned surrender to approach an American unit securing a bridge. |
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They then captured two of the batteries, which led to a quick surrender by the French. |
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The French retaliated by attacking Washington's army at Fort Necessity on 3 July 1754 and forced Washington to surrender. |
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This was the final battle of the war in North America, and it forced the French to surrender to Lieutenant Colonel William Amherst. |
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The conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on 14 June 1982, returning the islands to British control. |
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The terms of the surrender permitted Dutch residents to remain in the colony and allowed for religious freedom. |
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We are revitalising our Caledonian and Cornish sleeper services whilst the Germans prepare to surrender all of theirs at the end of this year. |
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The accommodator often knows when to give in to others, but can be persuaded to surrender a position even when it is not warranted. |
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Maybe it's their French blood. If it is, we sure don't need cheese-eating surrender monkeys in the Kaw River Valley! |
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All the colony's slaves, however, were freed upon its surrender to the British. |
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Provided you didn't surrender your ticket into the maw of the gateline at B, you could in theory go back to A and do the whole trip again. |
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The German troops on the islands surrendered on 9 May 1945, a few days after the final surrender in mainland Europe. |
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Subsequently, Grenville and Blake negotiated terms that permitted the Royalists to surrender honourably. |
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After Napoleon's surrender and exile to the island of Elba, peace appeared to have returned. |
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Alfred laid siege to the Danes, who were forced to surrender after reinforcements were lost in a storm. |
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The Danes were defeated and retreated to Chippenham, where King Alfred laid siege and soon forced them to surrender. |
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William may have hoped the English would surrender following his victory, but they did not. |
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Henry II decided instead to insist Richard to nominally surrender Aquitaine to his mother whilst Richard retained would actual control. |
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Richard demanded Philip surrender the Vexin but then the issue was settled when Richard announced he would marry Alys, Philip's sister. |
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Richard would surrender the kingdom of England to Henry, who would then give it back as a fief of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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In December 1203, John left Normandy never to return, and on 24 June 1204, Normandy capitulated with the surrender of Rouen. |
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The campaign never came to a major battle, and Llywelyn soon realised he had no choice but to surrender. |
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As part of the June peace deal, the barons were supposed to surrender London by 15 August, but this they refused to do. |
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After a closely fought battle the Spanish were forced to surrender on honorable terms. |
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His surrender on October 19, 1781 led to peace negotiations in Paris and secured the independence of the colonies. |
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Two days after the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Sukarno and fellow nationalist leader Hatta unilaterally declared Indonesian independence. |
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On the evening of the surrender of Colchester, Parliamentarians had Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot. |
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Cromwell and Fairfax took the formal surrender of the Royalists at Oxford in June. |
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The military protocol of the day was that a town or garrison that rejected the chance to surrender was not entitled to quarter. |
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With the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, England gained control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, renaming it New York. |
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Davout was defeated at the Battle of Issy and negotiations for surrender had begun. |
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Bonaparte marched on Venice and forced its surrender, ending 1,100 years of independence. |
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Despite the French surrender of the main fortifications, the British held the docks until the morning of 27 May. |
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The Allied position was complicated by Belgian King Leopold III's surrender on 27 May, which was postponed until 28 May. |
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All eight of the crewman shot down were captured but released after the French surrender. |
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Near dawn, the troops at the harbour were ordered back into the town, then discovered that the local French commander had negotiated a surrender. |
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The commandos from six craft who did land on Yellow I were beaten back and, unable to safely retreat or join the main force, had to surrender. |
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Although he attempted to bury it under the pebbles at the time of his surrender, he was spotted and the plan retrieved by the Germans. |
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The Germans refused to discuss surrender terms and the American sailed away. |
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Chinmoy taught that rapid spiritual progress could be made by following a path of love, devotion, and surrender. |
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With the surrender of Japan and the Axis at the end of WWII in 1945, the Korean Peninsula was once again independent. |
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Pirates did not take prisoners, and would kill all who resisted capture with their Jolly Rodger signifying surrender or die mentality. |
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The most prominent Cherokee was Brigadier General Stand Watie, the last Confederate general to surrender. |
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Meanwhile, Confederate forces across the South surrendered as news of Lee's surrender reached them. |
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It proved to be the largest surrender of Confederate forces, effectively bringing the war to an end. |
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On June 23, Cherokee leader Stand Watie became the last Confederate General to surrender his forces. |
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After 18 days, William accepted the city's honourable surrender, swearing an oath not to harm the city or increase its ancient tribute. |
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The surrender of Exeter was negotiated in April 1646 at Poltimore House by Thomas Fairfax. |
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The city refused to surrender, and Henry besieged it, burning it to the ground. |
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Henry mopped up the remaining resistance in Normandy, and Robert ordered his last garrisons to surrender. |
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In June 1651, soon after the declaration of war, the Parliamentarian forces under Admiral Robert Blake forced the Royalist fleet to surrender. |
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However, the surrender was a ploy, and the Atuatuci, armed with weapons they had hidden, tried to break out during the night. |
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The French responded in force from Fort Duquesne, and in July Washington was forced to surrender at the Battle of Fort Necessity. |
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Under the conditions of the surrender, three hundred married women were to be handed over as Roman slaves. |
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The Helvetii then offered their immediate surrender and agreed both to providing hostages and to giving up their weapons the next day. |
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As Lepidus and Octavian accepted the surrender of Pompeius' troops, Lepidus attempted to claim Sicily for himself, ordering Octavian to leave. |
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Because of this, he hoped the sole threat of his armies might be enough to persuade the Germanics to surrender. |
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Charlemagne accepted their surrender and sent one native chief, baptised Abraham, back to Avaria with the ancient title of khagan. |
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Charlemagne then accepted the surrender of the Wiltzes under Dragovit and demanded many hostages. |
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The German High Command expected an overture of peace from the French, but the new republic refused to surrender. |
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The island of Monemvasia refused to surrender and it was first ruled for a short time by an Aragonese corsair. |
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Giovanni Gambacorta took advantage of this to rise to power, but he secretly negotiated surrender with the besiegers. |
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In 1387 the Ming sent a military campaign to attack Naghachu, which concluded with the surrender of Naghachu and Ming conquest of Manchuria. |
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Following the League's replacement by the United Nations in 1946, South Africa refused to surrender its earlier mandate. |
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On November 25, 1491, the Treaty of Granada was signed, setting out the conditions for surrender. |
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This gave rise to discontent, and, to check an eventual rebellion, the government ordered all the inhabitants to surrender their arms. |
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However, following the surrender of Japan to the Allied forces, the meeting was shelved. |
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During the siege of the city, the sons of Moctezuma were murdered by the Aztecs, possibly because they wanted to surrender. |
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Among the concessions that Francis I yielded to Charles V were the surrender of any claims to Naples and Milan in Italy. |
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The Dutch retreated to the bow, where at first it seemed they were about to surrender. |
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In 1629 there was the surrender of Quebec, without battle, to English privateers led by David Kirke during the Thirty Years' War. |
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A company of Australians and a British warship besieged the Germans and their colonial subjects, ending with a German surrender. |
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Following their surrender at the Battles of Saratoga in October 1777, there were thousands of British and Hessian soldiers in American hands. |
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It is probable he was forced to surrender these before his book was finished. |
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With the French fleet neutralised, Harman then attacked the French at Cayenne, forcing its garrison to surrender. |
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The kingdom's grip on the region was weak, and by 1370 it was forced to surrender it to Harihara I of the Vijayanagara empire. |
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The surrender of Jerusalem by the Ottomans to the British on 9 December 1917 following the Battle of Jerusalem. |
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There was heavy fighting over the next week before the Volunteers were forced to surrender. |
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He waited for a surrender, announcing an amnesty for all revolutionaries, except foreigners and the leaders. |
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At the time of German surrender on 8 May 1945, there were 360,000 German soldiers in the country. |
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The most dangerous moment for POW's was the act of surrender, when helpless soldiers were sometimes mistakenly shot down. |
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After the German surrender, the International Red Cross was prohibited from providing aid such as food or visiting prisoner camps in Germany. |
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It appears, however, that the treaty is still unratified and that the minister has no authority to surrender the territory. |
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The rebels found the suggested terms of surrender unstomachable, and went straight back to fighting. |
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They insisted on being able to dictate the terms of surrender. |
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They model the surrender option as an American option because its maturity is unknown at the inception of the contract. |
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Yet, the yeses of Socrates' interlocutors may also signal disengagement or surrender to a strong arguer who they presume will win. |
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Sometimes the law tests or implies these as a surrender of the old agreement and a regrant. |
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Egos manufacture themselves through constriction, and experience fear when asked for any kind of surrender, intimacy, or releasement. |
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They failed, and they were overwhelmed and finally accepted an Armistice in November 1918, that amounted to a surrender. |
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Shortly afterwards he asked permission to attack the Royalist stronghold at Tickhill Castle, because he had heard it was willing to surrender. |
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In many countries, surrender of the passport is a condition of granting bail in lieu of imprisonment for a pending criminal trial. |
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Nevertheless, Maxime Weygand signed the surrender instrument and the army was ordered out of their fortifications, to be taken to POW camps. |
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The Rotterdam Blitz forced the main element of the Dutch army to surrender four days later. |
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Two days after the surrender of Japan in August 1945, Sukarno and Hatta, the influential nationalist leaders, declared Indonesian independence. |
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However, following the end of World War II and Japanese surrender, Portuguese control was reinstated. |
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Next day, Sir William awoke to find his castle besieged by Moray, who demanded its surrender. |
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The countess, whose husband was held by King Edward in the Tower of London, advised him to surrender. |
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The French besieged the castle and forced the surrender of the garrison on 31 July. |
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The Spanish commander called for the Scots to surrender and avoid a final assault, warning that if they did not, no quarter would be given. |
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On 25 November 1781, the situation worsened when news of the surrender at Yorktown arrived in London. |
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Following the surrender at Yorktown, the Whig party came to power in Britain and began opening negotiations for a cessation of hostilities. |
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These factors contributed to the eventual surrender of Cornwallis' entire army, and the end of major operations in North America. |
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On 26 December 1944, A Messerschmitt BF109G signalling intentions to surrender crash landed at the airfield. |
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Edward's men confiscated the harvest in Anglesey, which deprived Llewelyn and his men of food, forcing Llewelyn to surrender. |
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Where concrete bunkers were encountered, the troops worked their way around them, cutting the German troops off and forcing them to surrender. |
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Imam Yahya agreed to release Saudi hostages and the surrender of the Idrisis to Saudi custody. |
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Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender. |
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The mayor, aldermen and many citizens of Wexford were prepared to surrender but the military commander played for time. |
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The Dutch then laid siege to the city, demanding the surrender of all its wealth. |
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This group of men were the last German troops to surrender after the Second World War. |
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King Juan Carlos took personal command of the military and successfully ordered the coup plotters, via national television, to surrender. |
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A second boarding attempt forced the Prosperity to surrender thereafter, however. |
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In 287 or 288, the Roman Caesar Maximian forced the Salian leader Genobaud and his people to surrender without a fight. |
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Leviathan resumed her pursuit of Monarca, eventually catching up and forcing her to surrender. |
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General Lee throw down his sword and surrender his invincible Southern legions to that poor little Northern mud-sill, a late tanner from Illinois! |
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Henry's rising prominence made him a great threat to Richard, and the Yorkist king made several overtures to the Duke of Brittany to surrender the young Lancastrian. |
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Much of the trip was spent identifying opportunities for 30AU in the Pacific, although the unit ultimately saw little action because of the Japanese surrender. |
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Henry's marriage to Margaret of Anjou prompted criticism from Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, because it included the surrender of Maine and an extended truce with France. |
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The song assumed extra significance in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II when it was played at the ceremonial surrender of the Japanese imperial army in Singapore. |
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While there, King Olaf gets Thorfinn to also surrender his share to him. |
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A contingent of rebels held out in the virtually impregnable Kenilworth Castle and did not surrender until the drafting of the conciliatory Dictum of Kenilworth. |
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The British commander General Francis de Rottenberg did not have the strength to retake Fort George, so he build a blockade, hoping to starve the Americans into surrender. |
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Eventually Conrad of Montferrat concluded the surrender negotiations with Saladin's forces inside Acre and raised the banners of the kings in the city. |
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The Parliamentarians retreated to Bradford and the Royalists set up headquarters at Bolling Hall from where the town was besieged leading to its surrender. |
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The Parliamentarian General Fairfax attacked from the north in 1646, taking the town and forcing the Royalists to surrender, after which Gallants Bower was demolished. |
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Henry was encircled at Chinon and was compelled to surrender. |
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Raphael Holinshed's story is that a part of the Scottish army returned to Scotland, and the rest stayed at Ford waiting for Norham to surrender and debating their next move. |
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He had to force the Germans to battle or be starved into surrender. |
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In 1068 William besieged rebels in Exeter, including Harold's mother Gytha, and after suffering heavy losses managed to negotiate the town's surrender. |
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Meanwhile, American general Benedict Arnold had grown disenfranchised with the war, and conspired with the British to surrender the key American fortress of West Point. |
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Royalist guns were set up on Raw Dykes and, after an unsatisfactory response to a demand for surrender, the Newarke was stormed and the city was sacked on 30 May. |
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According to Cassius Dio, the legio XII Fulminata was hemmed in by a superior Quadi force and almost forced to surrender because of the heat and thirst. |
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Dio was among those who gave a highly critical account of military discipline during the time, saying that they would rather just surrender to the enemy. |
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Though the Hanoverians defeated an army of 60,000 French at Minden, Austrian general Daun forced the surrender of an entire Prussian corps of 13,000 in the Battle of Maxen. |
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Castell Y Bere's starving garrison would eventually surrender on 25 April. |
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Ultimately, at the end of the campaign, Owain was forced to come to terms with Henry, being obliged to surrender Rhuddlan and other conquests in the east. |
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It is, however, precisely here that the weakness of hypothecation lies, for governments are not likely readily to surrender control over the disposition of taxes they impose. |
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Again, as with consent you should make sure that any agreement is well documented and take care if you are agreeing either to surrender part of your tenancy or to its regrant. |
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He was surrounded by the Romans and besieged, and came to an agreement that they would surrender if they were given land and his starving forces given food. |
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Simon had tried to rob a bank while he was withdrawing, but he had been forced to surrender to the police after they had fired several volleys at him. |
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However, he began the season as Liverpool's first choice striker alongside Collymore, only to surrender his place in the first eleven to Robbie Fowler as the season wore on. |
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Initially, Cromwell issued a summons to surrender, offering lenient terms in the hope that he could secure Wexford intact and use it as winter quarters for his troops. |
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State ceremonies aimed to induce a sense of respectful awe and emotional surrender in participants by an increasingly orchestrated and theatrical ceremonialism. |
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During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in September 1649, Oliver Cromwell arrived at Arklow on his way to Wexford and took the surrender of the town. |
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In 1139, Bari, the 50,000 inhabitants of which had remained unscathed behind its massive walls during the wars of the past year, decided to surrender. |
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Besieging the castle will bleed it white and force it to surrender. |
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The war ministerial post was de facto overtaken by the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, which was headed by Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel until the German surrender. |
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The operations resulted in the defeat and surrender of the limited Portuguese defensive garrison, which was forced to surrender to a much larger military force. |
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Upon reaching the city in September 1895, the column bombarded the royal palace with heavy artillery, causing heavy casualties and leading Queen Ranavalona III to surrender. |
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After King John was forced to surrender Normandy to France in 1204, English magnates with holdings on both sides of the Channel were faced with conflict. |
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State Department's Robin Raphel told Massoud to surrender to the Taliban. |
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Upon the surrender of Warsaw to General Ivan Paskievich, many Polish troops, feeling they could not go on, withdrew into Prussia and there laid down their arms. |
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German commanders met with French officials on 18 June with the goal of forcing the new French government to accept an armistice that amounted to surrender. |
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The Hundred Days Offensive beginning in August proved the final straw and following this string of military defeats, German troops began to surrender in large numbers. |
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After brief clashes with the local civilian population and Lord Cawdor's forces on 23 February, Tate was forced into an unconditional surrender by 24 February. |
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Some main fortresses continued the fight, despite appeals for surrender. |
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In the afternoon, a German officer with a captured French officer and Belgian soldier, approached under a flag of truce to demand a surrender, which Nicholson refused. |
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Following news of the surrender at Saratoga and concern over French intervention, the British decided to completely accept the original demands made by the American Patriots. |
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The Spanish troops quickly gained control, and once the forts saw the Spanish flag flying over the governor's house, they began negotiations for surrender. |
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Before his arrival, however, the pirates had been forced to surrender by a force of Bermudian privateers who had been issued letters of marque by the Governor of Bermuda. |
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Nationalisation was the only way to repay those debts and ensure a fair deal for everyone, and he was willing to surrender his shares in Power Jets to make this happen. |
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On 15 August 1945, Japan surrendered, with the surrender documents finally signed on the deck of the American battleship USS Missouri on 2 September 1945, ending the war. |
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The Channel Islands were liberated after the German surrender. |
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On 6 April Germany simultaneously invaded both Yugoslavia and Greece, making rapid progress and forcing both nations to surrender within the month. |
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Though forced to surrender the patent in 1619, he continued making iron and steel until his estate was sequestrated during the Civil War, but the works continued in use. |
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From such a surrender, the dissolution of the body corporate ensues. |
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He was also forced to surrender the large number of rolls from his predecessors Martin Pateshull and William Raleigh, also known as William de Raley. |
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Initially, Lee did not intend to surrender, but planned to regroup at the village of Appomattox Court House, where supplies were to be waiting, and then continue the war. |
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Where Cromwell negotiated the surrender of fortified towns, as at Carlow, New Ross, and Clonmel, some historians At Wexford, Cromwell again began negotiations for surrender. |
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The last Axis force to surrender in North Africa was the 1st Italian Army. |
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Cromwell first put down a Royalist uprising in south Wales led by Rowland Laugharne, winning back Chepstow Castle on 25 May and six days later forcing the surrender of Tenby. |
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