Sentence examples for the surrender on from inspiring English sources

It was the site of the surrender on April 26 , 1865 of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, which effectively ended the American Civil War.

Ms. Shain was a part-time nurse at the Doctors Hospital in 1945 when she heard reports of the surrender on the radio at work and headed to Times Square to celebrate with a friend.

It seemed it would be a matter of days before Mr Gbagbo would be forced to surrender.But he continued to cling on despite the destruction of his heavy artillery and ammunition dumps, the defection of most of his troops and the surrender on April 5th of his generals.

In the first week of December, with Mexican forces divided between the town and the Alamo mission, the Texans began a house-to-house assault that ended with the surrender on December 11 of Cos and the Mexicans forces, who, when paroled, withdrew south of the Rio Grande.

During the ceremony, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who accepted the surrender on behalf of the United Nations, said, "It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past".

After the hapless second-half against the Irish and the surrender on home soil against England, a last-gasp win in Rome may just be the platform to salvage something from this season's Six Nations.

After the surrender of the Netherlands on 17 May 1940, III.

The surrender of Japan on 14 August precluded further attacks.

He was in command of the battalion at the surrender of Havana on January 1 , 1899

The situation looked even worse after the surrender of Madrid on May 11.

Deir al-Balah was captured by the British Army following the surrender of Khan Yunis on 28 February 1917.