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1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't

1991 J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84

1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel

1975 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days

1973 Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender

1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender

1954 French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu

1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing

1947 Alan Greisman, Sally Field's husband/producer, Fletch, Surrender

1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek

1945 Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies

1945 Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender

1945 Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies

1945 V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)

1945 U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender

1945 Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II

1945 Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer to retain Emperor Hirohito

1945 Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged

1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender

1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender

1945 V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe

1945 Formal undertaking of complete German surrender

1945 Nazi generals Jodl and Von Friedenburg surrender

1945 German troops in Netherlands, Denmark and Norway surrender

1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed

1945 German troops in Groningen surrender

1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium

1943 General Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II

1943 German and Italian forces in Africa surrender

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender

1943 German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender

1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army

1942 Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender

1942 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender

1942 Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies

1942 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender

1942 German troops in Bardia surrender

1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong

1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese

1941 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman

1941 British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis

1940 France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany

1939 Last Polish troops surrender

1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender

1925 Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army

1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender

1898 Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to U.S. at Santiago Cuba

1885 Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear

1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft. Sill

1871 Apaches in Arizona surrender to white and Mexican adventurers; 144 die

1866 Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to U.S. forces

1865 Battle of Galveston, Texas, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith

1865 Surrender of Sam Jones

1865 Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox

1863 Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender

1862 Rebels surrender Ft. Pulaski, Georgia-Rebels surrender

1862 Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)

1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender

1861 Formal Union surrender of Ft. Sumter

1861 FL state troops demand surrender of Ft. Pickens

1832 Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender

1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British

1799 Bataafse fleet surrender to English

1777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender

1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

1759 Battle of Quebec ends, French surrender to British

1673 Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of New York City

1664 Dutch surrender New Amsterdam (NY) to 300 English soldiers

1653 Fronde-leaders surrender in Bordeaux

1602 Spanish force in Ireland surrender to the English at Kinsdale

1601 Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius

1587 Deventer and Zutphen surrender to Spain


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