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".
The apparent diplomatic breakthrough outside Bonn on a United Nations security council resolution on the province appeared to deprive Mr Milosevic of his last room for manoeuvre after he first accepted surrender terms last week and then unpicked the detail at the weekend in the haggling over the fine print of his military pullout from Kosovo.
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.
Accordingly, Taizong sent talented generals like Li Shiji with mobile armies to the frontier, while fortifications were mostly limited to a series of walled garrisons, such as the euphemistically-named "cities for accepting surrender" (受降城, shòuxiáng chéng) that were actually bases from which to launch attacks.
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.
