Sentence examples for surrender except from inspiring English sources

Officers from Latona were first to board the French frigate but Emeric refused to tender his formal surrender except to an officer of Horatio because he insisted that Horatio had caused the entirety of Junons damage.

In the Japanese navy areas, the arrival of Allied troops quickly prevented revolutionary activities where Australian troops, followed by Dutch troops and administrators, took the Japanese surrender (except for Bali and Lombok).

The Great Lion was overwhelmed by superior firepower, and the others surrendered, excepting the unnamed ship.

It outlines the territories relinquished by the Cree, but ensures that "the said Indians shall have right to pursue their avocations of hunting and fishing throughout the tract surrendered," except in "such tracts as may from time to time be required or taken up for settlement, mining, and other purposes".

Most German troops encountered surrendered quickly, except at Leg Copse and Oosttaverne Wood where they offered slight resistance.

Or take Grant's famous reply to Gen. Simon B. Buckner's request to negotiate terms for the surrender of Fort Donelson: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.

He led a heroic defense of Venice against an Austrian siege even after the defeat of the Piedmontese army at Novara; when cholera and bombardment finally forced surrender in August 1849, Manin was among those excepted from amnesty and was banished.

In 1401, the city surrendered to Timur, except for the citadel, which Timur besieged.

Everything about this scene is terrific — except the surrender.

Next, they had to surrender all personal belongings except a locker key and the $20 in quarters that they were allowed to bring in for the vending machines.

Known as one of the "Beatitudes," the idea of poverty of spirit mystified me until I began to understand how essential our inner poverty is before God, that we are nothing, that we have nothing of real worth to offer God except our surrender, our bowing down.