Sentence examples for was finally surrendered from inspiring English sources

In the 15th century it was held for a time by the Portuguese supporters of Princess Juana, claimant to the Castilian throne, but was finally surrendered to Ferdinand II (the Catholic) in 1475.

The abbot's attempts at bribery could not save Leicester Abbey, and it was finally surrendered to the crown for dissolution in 1538.

To help speed the process of closing the institution, Ralf Hartley was appointed as the prior of Wetheral by Henry's minister, Thomas Cromwell; royal commissioners visited in 1536, and the priory was finally surrendered to the Crown in 1538.

After the secessionist government was finally forced to surrender and rejoin Nigeria, in 1970, the predicted genocidal massacres never materialized.

By the time Biafra was finally forced to surrender, in 1970, the number of Igbo dead was estimated at between one million and three million.

Later in 1652, Condé was finally forced to surrender Paris to the royalist forces in October, effectively bringing the Fronde to an end: the Bastille returned to royal control.

Mr. el-Atriss eventually surrendered and was finally released last week from the Passaic County Correctional facility after pleading guilty to one count of selling documents that were supposed to be official but were not.

Kesselring remained stubbornly opposed to the surrender, but was finally won over by Wolff on the late morning of 2 May after a two-hour phone call to Kesselring at his headquarters at Pullach.

While Ribbung died in 1226, the revolt was finally quashed in 1227 after the surrender of the last leader of the uprising, Haakon the Crazy's son Knut Haakonsson.

Under the pretense of a rescue, Achaeus was finally captured and put to death, and the citadel surrendered.

Victory was finally achieved on 14 June, when the dejected Argentinian garrison surrendered in Port Stanley.