A status-based target can become a non-combatant (that is, illegal to kill) only if he is wounded to the point where he no longer poses a threat, or if he is in the process of surrendering.
But even when you're in the process of surrendering on a particular point, it makes a difference how surrender happens, and what — if anything — you can persuade your victorious opponents to concede.
He was in the Convention Army that surrendered after the battle, among about 5,900 troops that surrendered at Saratoga.
To understand the very powerful and mixed feelings that Mr. Dando elicits among the people who know his work, you have to flash back to the early 1990's, when indie rock was in the process of surrendering its independence.
Breitbart News dug up court documents revealing that, on the day that Moore first approached Corfman outside family court, her mother was in the midst of surrendering custody of her to Corfman's father, owing to "disciplinary and behavioral problems".
Witnesses had testified that Brown was in the act of surrendering.
The suggestion was that Dwight was in the worse prison, having surrendered so much of his will and humanity just to survive.
