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Third and last page of the German instrument of unconditional surrender signed in Berlin, Germany on 8 May 1945. The German Instrument of Surrender [a] was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, ending World War II in Europe.
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet) Surrendering British troops held at gunpoint by Japanese infantry in the Battle of Singapore. Capitulation ( Latin : capitulum , a little head or division; capitulare , to treat upon terms) is an agreement in time of war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a ...
Merriam-Webster defines "surrender" as "the action of yielding one's person or giving up the possession of something especially into the power of another", and traces the etymology to the Middle English surrendre, from French sur-or sus-, suz "under" + rendre "to give back"; [1] this in turn is defined by the University of Michigan Middle English Dictionary as meaning "The giving up of an ...
At the time of the capitulation, Murat had about 16,000 troops near Erfurt. [14] The 7,000 cavalry immediately available included General of Division Étienne Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty 's 1st Cuirassier Division, General of Division Jean-Joseph Ange d'Hautpoul 's 2nd Cuirassier Division, and General of Division Marc Antoine de Beaumont ...
No to capitulation! ( Ukrainian : Ні капітуля́ції! , romanized : Ni kapitulyátsiyi! , IPA: [n⁽ʲ⁾i kɐp⁽ʲ⁾itʊˈlʲat͡s⁽ʲ⁾iji] ) was a series of protests in Ukraine against the policy of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in eastern Ukraine .
The Berlin Declaration (German: Berliner Erklärung/Deklaration) of 5 June 1945 or the Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany, [n 1] had the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France, acting on behalf of the Allies of World War II, jointly assume de jure "supreme authority" over Germany after its military defeat and asserted the legitimacy of their ...
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Lansdowne became a pariah and his letter "a deed of shame". [3] Bonar Law publicly criticised Lansdowne's letter, although U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was said to be "impressed" by the letter's arguments. H. G. Wells said Lansdowne's letter "was the letter of a Peer who fears revolution more than national dishonour". [5]