Sentence examples for surrender terms from inspiring English sources

When he met with Confederate General Joseph Johnston, he proposed lenient surrender terms.

Reynaud resigned that evening; Pétain was appointed in his place and asked Germany for surrender terms.

On February 16 Southern General Simon B. Buckner asked for an armistice and surrender terms from his old friend Grant.

Kunduz offered safety from the bombs and a chance to negotiate painless surrender terms, as Afghan tribes often do.

How can this description be reconciled with Grant's recollection that, when he sat down to write the surrender terms at Appomattox, he had no idea how to start?

The prince, now 64, did well in the fighting, and, when the town capitulated, Afonso left the surrender terms to his uncle, who showed remarkable leniency.

Menacingly, in Scotland and Ireland (as a prelude, many assumed, to actions to come in England) he tried to renegotiate by a policy of surrender the terms on which all former monastic and cathedral lands were held.

Satō advised Tōgō that in reality, "unconditional surrender or terms closely equivalent thereto" was all that Japan could expect.

In the first version Nikola Jurišić rejected the offer to surrender on favourable terms, and in the second version, the city was offered terms for a nominal surrender.

The terms "surrender" and "higher power" and "powerlessness" are apt to leave some people uneasy (they are key phrases and concepts in 12-step programs everywhere).

Carthage was prepared to surrender, but the terms offered by Rome were too severe, and in 255 Carthage attacked with a new army built around cavalry and elephants and drove the invaders to the sea.