8 sentences with 'surrendered'
Example sentences and phrases with the word surrendered and other words derived from it.
• « The formerly independent Phoenician city-states within the Assyrian zone of control surrendered, paid tribute and deferred to Assyrian officials rather than face their wrath in battle. »
• « Ultimately, the Nazi party controlled Germany from 1933 until Germany surrendered to the Allies in World War II in 1945; that period is remembered as the Third Reich, the Nazis' own term for what Hitler promised would be "1,000 years" of German rule. »
• « In the end, France surrendered to Germany on 22 June. Germany occupied the central and northern parts of France but allowed a group of right-wing French politicians and generals to create a Nazi-allied puppet state in the south. That state became known as the Vichy Regime, named after the spa town of Vichy that served as its capital. »
• « The Germans were held at bay until the main Soviet army was assembled. By November, the Germans were being beaten, and the German general in charge directly disobeyed Hitler and surrendered in February 1943. Here, the Germans were not in their element - urban warfare was not the same as Blitzkrieg (blitzkrieg), and the fanatical resistance of the Soviets (who paid with over 1.1 million casualties) stopped them. »
• « On 7 May 1945, Germany surrendered, a week after Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, and the next day was "V-E Day" - Victory in Europe. »
• « To secure and increase the conquests it was decided to send one expedition to Buenos Aires and another to Chile, but when it was learned that Beresford had surrendered, it was decided to combine them and send them to the River Plate. »
• « The largest British effort to isolate New England took place in 1777. That effort ultimately failed when the British surrendered a force of more than 5,000 to the Americans in the autumn of 1777 at the Battle of Saratoga. »