Sentence examples for before the surrender from inspiring English sources

He wants the amendment to pass before the surrender.

One child survived; the other died from dehydration in the very hot car before the surrender.

Several members of the Saʿūdī family managed to escape before the surrender; the rest were sent to Egypt to prison.

Sun Tzu, in 'Art of War' often talks about how enemies, before the surrender, try to negotiate terms".

In 1862 he was in command of the Confederate forces at Fort Donelson in Tennessee but withdrew his brigade before the surrender, under circumstances never clarified.

"The benevolent treatment of prisoners, which is invariably observed by the Americans, will be extended to them," Washington had assured Cornwallis before the surrender.

Recalling the false flags used on 20 August, Bouvet resolved to wait until morning before accepting the surrender.

But he was one of 54 reporters, including the sixteen who maintained the embargo, who signed a protest over the fact that Kennedy defied the military censors by filing the news of the surrender before the Berlin surrender, which my father also covered for Stars and Stripes.

Rather than have his ship destroyed, the wounded Gordon surrendered (although it is not clear whether Victor opened fire or not before the British surrender).

He joined forces with General Joseph E. Johnston shortly before the Confederate surrender (April 1865).

On Bataan & elsewhere in the Philippines, many soldiers were promoted in the field before the American surrender.