About two weeks ago several of the surrendering rebel leaders were flown to the capital, Abuja, where the president himself told them of his development plans for the Delta.
(Their attitude reminds me of the surrendering Confederate officer who told the Union General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, "You may forgive us, but we will not be forgiven. There is a rankle in our hearts of which you little dream. We hate you, sir").
In fact, I wouldn't expect to see images like those of the surrendering soldiers above for decades.
For several minutes, the Patriots rejected DePeyster's white flag and continued firing, many of them shouting, "Give 'em Tarleton's Quarter!" and "Give them Buford's play!" A significant number of the surrendering Loyalists were killed.
At the end of the First World War, Royal Oak escorted several vessels of the surrendering German High Seas Fleet from the Firth of Forth to their internment in Scapa Flow, and was present at a ceremony in Pentland Firth to greet other ships as they followed.
