9 sentences with “surrender”

From July 1940, the Luftwaffe began a campaign to completely destroy Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) and terrorise the British into surrender.

Hernán Cortés was able to achieve the surrender of the surviving Aztec forces by 1522 and founded the Spanish colony of New Spain in central Mexico.

This was General Belgrano's greatest military victory and the success was increased by the surrender of the entire enemy force, with its leader at its head.

US President Truman warned Japan that it faced "swift and total destruction" if it did not surrender; when it did not, he authorised nuclear attacks on Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (8 August).

Belgium was a neutral country before the war, and German planners expected Belgium to surrender quickly as German troops advanced rapidly into France. Instead, Belgian soldiers fiercely resisted the German invasion.

From there, on 10 August 1806, he demanded the surrender of the British and when they refused to do so, he advanced to the Retiro area of Buenos Aires, which he seized without the artillery of Popham's fleet being able to prevent him from doing so.

All resistance was futile and the British decided to surrender, as did the invading chief when he offered his sword to Liniers under the arches of the Cabildo building in Buenos Aires. On hearing what had happened, Popham ordered the fleet to move away from the coast.

From Los Corrales, the British general Whitelocke ordered the attack on the city on 5 July 1807, after unsuccessfully demanding its surrender. The neighbourhood defended itself magnificently and inflicted enormous losses on the attackers, who finally had to surrender on the 7th.

Hitler initially hoped that the British would agree to surrender the continent and negotiate while he consolidated his victory (and turned against the USSR). Instead, Britain refused to back down and handed over power to an emergency government headed by the new prime minister, Winston Churchill.