The phrase "a number of surrender" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an incorrect combination of words, as "surrender" is typically a verb or noun that does not fit well with "a number of."
Example: "A number of soldiers chose to surrender during the battle."
Alternatives: "a number of capitulations" or "several instances of surrender."
There the regiment rested again until midday before making for Keikur Beidas; encountering a number of surrendering Ottoman troops along the way, it arrived there in the afternoon but halted only briefly before continuing on to the mouth of the Plain of Esdraelon, where they bivouacked for the night.
"We had a number of people that surrendered their guns to be sent home".
He was only the first of a number of Chinese who surrendered or were captured and entered Manchu service in an administration that adapted many Chinese methods.
The Song generals, whom Jia distrusted, also had grievances, which may explain why a number of them later surrendered to the Mongols without fighting.
And the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug said more than 40 security troops, including a number of women, had surrendered in Timisoara.
Clearly, in a number of significant ways they surrender.
An officer responded to emergency calls at around 7 15pm about a man waving a gun and pointing it at passersby on Las Vegas Boulevard near the Bellagio casino, and the individual did not comply with a number of verbal commands to surrender, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Captain Matt McCarthy said in a video news release. .
By October 3, an unknown number of surrendered and wounded Union soldiers were killed by Confederate regular, home guard and irregular soldiers, with special ire directed toward the black troops.
In late May, Chief Poundmaker and a number of Battleford area tribes surrendered to General Middleton.
Hardy came belowdecks to see Nelson just after half-past two, and informed him that a number of enemy ships had surrendered.
