What was left of the French government retreated to Bordeaux and accepted terms of surrender from the Prussians; the terms are always called "humiliating," but all terms of surrender are humiliating — that's what makes it a surrender.
The Carthaginian council offered terms of surrender but reneged at the last minute, pinning its hopes on one last battle.
It's hard not to feel that you are about to sign a document imposing humiliating terms of surrender.
The terms of surrender stipulated that all Spanish forces be withdrawn from both Peru and Charcas Boliviaa); the last of them departed from Callao, the port of Lima, in January 1826.
In 1260, two years after the demoralizing sack of Baghdad, the Mongol leader sent an ambassador to Egypt to deliver terms of surrender.
Grant also stressed in his memoirs how the final terms of surrender — settled upon after midnight on July 4 — worked in every way to the Union's advantage.
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.
Tragically, despite our prime minister's acceptance of the troika's terms of surrender, and the loss of another year during which Greece's great depression is deepening, the same process is unfolding now.
HIGHLIGHTS -- an 1803 document authorizing negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, signed "Bonaparte" (with a Madeira wine stain); Ulysses S. Grant's handwritten terms of surrender at Appomattox, dated April 9, 1865; maps of Erskine and DeWitt, George Washington's cartographers during the Revolutionary War.
In perhaps the most famous example, Ruth Benedict's wartime study of the Japanese, eventually published as "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword," played a critical role in how President Roosevelt shaped the terms of surrender with the Japanese.
