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    Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power. A surrender...
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    The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, and ended...
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  • unconditional surrender is a surrender in which no guarantees, reassurances, or promises (i.e., conditions) are given to the surrendering party. It is...
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  • up surrender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Surrender may refer to: Surrender (law), the early relinquishment of a tenancy Surrender (military), the...
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    The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing...
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    he had no choice but to surrender with his further avenue of retreat and escape now cut off. The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the...
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    The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in...
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  • Defeat (redirect from Military defeat)
    the opposite of victory Debellatio Surrender (military) usually follows a defeat Defeatism Failure List of military disasters This disambiguation page...
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  • Thumbnail for Pakistani Instrument of Surrender
    The Pakistani Instrument of Surrender (Bengali: পাকিস্তানের আত্মসমর্পণের দলিল, romanized: Pākistānēr Atmasamarpaṇēr Dalil) was a legal document signed...
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  • "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys", sometimes shortened to "surrender monkeys", is a pejorative term for French people. The term is based on the stereotype...
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    Japan's civil administration. In the immediate aftermath of Japan's military surrender, the country's government continued to formally operate under the...
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    of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel...
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    accepted the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military at the end of World War II. Following the Hiroshima bombing...
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  • An instrument of surrender is a surrendering document of a military conflict, as those documents are legal instruments. Some such documents are: World...
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    capitulare, to treat upon terms) is an agreement in time of war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a particular body of troops, a town or a territory...
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    called it "one of the most Spanish of all pictures". The Surrender of Breda depicts a military victory, the 1624 Siege of Breda, during the Eighty Years...
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    Battle of Fort Pillow (category Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War)
    attempting to surrender. Military historian David J. Eicher concluded: "Fort Pillow marked one of the bleakest, saddest events of American military history...
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    upper hand, and the Eastern Command of the Pakistan military signed the instrument of surrender on 16 December 1971 in Dhaka, marking the formation of...
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    surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House, by General Robert E. Lee and concluded with the surrender...
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    invasion of Ukraine to safely surrender to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The project guarantees the detention of surrendering military personnel in accordance...
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    The surrender of Major General Botho Elster and more than 19,000 German soldiers to the United States Army during World War II took place on 17 September...
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    refusal to accept an opponent's lawful surrender and the combatant's provision of no quarter, by killing the surrendering opponents. Summary executions have...
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  • Thumbnail for The surrender ceremony of World War II in China war zone
    Divisions from the former Imperial Japanese Army officially surrendered to Chinese military officials and representatives of the allied forces at the Forbidden...
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  • frequency (149.2 MHz) for receiving surrender appeals from Ukrainian servicemen. The hotline was set up by the Russian military in the summer of 2023.[citation...
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    would not surrender unless there was an overwhelming demonstration of destructive capability. Those who oppose the bombings argue it was militarily unnecessary...
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    one of four possible outcomes of investment, the others being relief, surrender, or reduction. A breakout is achieved when an invested force launches...
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    A. A. K. Niazi (category Recipients of the Military Cross)
    authors and critics within the Pakistani military held him morally responsible for his decision to unilaterally surrender the Pakistani Eastern Command, which...
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    belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945. The mobilization of funds, people...
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    The surrender at Perevolochna was the capitulation of almost the entire Swedish army on 30 June 1709 (O.S.) / 1 July 1709 (Swedish calendar) / 11 July...
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    The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at...
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