The phrase "accept surrenders" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving negotiations, conflicts, or situations where one party is agreeing to yield or give up.
Example: "The general announced that they would accept surrenders from the opposing forces to end the conflict peacefully."
Alternatives: "receive capitulations" or "acknowledge yields".
But despite the prime minister's insistence that Japan must accept surrender, the army insisted on total, last-ditch resistance.
"I like Geronimo; he would never accept surrender," said de Kersauson from Paris in a telephone interview last week.
So fierce and fast was the fighting, we had not time to accept surrender offered by many Yankees — just rode on and left them behind".
We accept surrender and buy all of the White House's excuses about Republican obstructionism.
So forgive, accept, surrender, see and learn and watch the guilt dissolve.
The Russian high command was not in Rheims, and would not accept surrender until the Germans did so in Berlin.
If a hot war breaks out in Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, or anywhere else, we can expect to face an enemy that simply won't accept surrender.
"They make it extraordinarily difficulty for coalition forces to accept surrendering forces or protect civilians". In addition, McChrystal said, Iraqi civilian volunteers trained in combat, known as the Fedayeen Saddam and headed by Hussein's son Uday, might be preventing regular soldiers from surrendering.
For examples of Song maps mentioning "Cities for Accepting Surrenders," see Cao Wanru 曹婉如 et al., eds., Zhongguo gudai ditu ji: Zhanguo-Yuan 中國古代地圖集: 戰國 元 (Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1990), plates 56, 59, 62, 72, 94 101, 119.
One of his biographers, Edward E. Leslie, believes that Quantrill saw himself as a regular Confederate soldier, one who "kept promises he made to the enemy, accepted surrender, granted paroles, tried to exchange prisoners, and made certain that none of his men ever raped or assaulted a woman".
