Sentence examples for demand for surrender from inspiring English sources

That sounded brave and defiant coming from the American general refusing a German demand for surrender in World War II.

Pemberton also claimed that he had gotten in substance his initial demand for surrender: "The discussion of the question of terms to a commission, although that commission was now necessarily an impromptu one".

It may be counter-apocryphal, but some say the count's battlefield response to a demand for surrender was the expletive "merde!" -- a favorite Hemingway word for excrement sometimes referred to in France as "le mot de Cambronne".

He made a personal request to General Anthony McAuliffe – who as commander of the 101st at Bastogne had famously answered the German demand for surrender with "nuts to you" – to keep him out of combat, saying he had seen enough of war.

They encountered the first resistance at Scarborough, where Harald's demand for surrender was opposed.

The boat carried a demand for surrender, claiming that gun batteries downstream would otherwise destroy the convoy.

Armed supporters of Colonel Qaddafi in Bani Walid and Surt have defied demands for surrender by anti-Qaddafi forces who have besieged both towns.

Ludendorff saw this, militarily, as a demand for unconditional surrender and would therefore have continued resistance.

He quickly moved on to the matter of Grant's written demand for unconditional surrender.

Without the demand for unconditional surrender, the war in all probability would have ended much earlier.

General Miller thereupon renewed his demand for the surrender of the place, coupled this time with a declaration that he would bombard it if his demand were refused.