Sentence examples for terms for surrender from inspiring English sources

The Germans dropped fewer bombs on Leningrad than on London, and never offered terms for surrender.

In Lee's account, the standoff was finally broken when he approached the wagons at the head of a squad of Mormon militia under a flag of truce and laid out what he said were the Indians' terms for surrender.

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 called out to me, promising fair terms for my surrender, and I listened.

More than a dozen senior Taliban figures – possibly including the former supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar – are negotiating terms for their surrender, according to Afghan officials.

He then identified his terms for our surrender: the removal of Jews from Palestine and the end of America's interference with Iraq.

He was describing the scene in Wilmer McLean's parlour at Appomattox Court House 20 years earlier, when he started to write the terms for the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

On 7 December, Pellew agreed formal terms for the surrender of Revolutie, Pluto, Kortenaar and the Dutch East Indiaman Rustloff that were anchored in Griessie.

The discussions in the past few days have been about the terms of surrender, with the White House and Reid pressing for something close to an unconditional capitulation.

Alberg and Perry negotiated the terms of surrender: AT&T's acquisition of the company for $11.5 billion (plus $5 billion in assumed debt).Alberg went on to run McCaw's Lin unit.

The terms of surrender Malcolm offered to the Peshwa were controversial amongst the British for being too liberal: The Peshwa was offered a luxurious life near Kanpur and given a pension of about 80,000 pounds.