"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".
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.
We accept surrender and buy all of the White House's excuses about Republican obstructionism.
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.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague lists 18 specific war crimes that can occur in a NIAC, including attacking civilians, attacking people or things involved in humanitarian assistance, attacking protected objects (like medical facilities), rape, sexual violence, the displacement of civilians, mutilation, and denying quarter (refusing to accept surrender), among others.
Only law enforcement in towns and a posse will accept surrenders.
