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What troubled him now was the sense that people were surrendering that resolve.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

“Taliban fighters did not listen to us,” said Shuja, who had left his post in Helmand province when he heard that military units were surrendering en masse to the Taliban.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021

Still, he has little apparent support at home, and thousands of his soldiers were surrendering.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

Hitler was already dead, and the surviving German forces in Berlin were surrendering to the advancing Soviet army.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2015

While the Russian officers were surrendering, a desperate struggle was carried on at the far end of the Malakoff enclosure, the Russians coming over the parapets in three heavy columns.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)