The deal was widely seen as surrender to Taliban control of the valley, but it collapsed after militants refused to lay down arms and moved into neighboring districts to expand their influence.

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Nothing but surrender. Lee sent a note to General Grant asking to meet with him to discuss surrender terms.

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One of the pirates pointed a gun at Captain Phillips and demanded that he order the crew to surrender.

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He said later that he did so because he was finding it difficult to bring up the question of surrender.

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that by our frame of government, the states which have slavery are to retain it, or surrender it at their own pleasure;

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I asked to see you to learn upon what terms you would receive the surrender of my army."

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"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly in those moments."

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The surrender demand was carried to Sumter the next day by a group of Confederate officers.

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Abraham Lincoln did not live to see the final surrender of the armies of the Confederacy.

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And he promised not to surrender any federal property in the states that seceded.

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The Confederate general said he would let hunger force the Union Army to surrender.

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When people in Washington learned of Lee's surrender, they hurried to the White House.

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Now these banks had to surrender the government surplus to the state governments.

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General Beauregard informed the Confederate government in Montgomery that Anderson refused to surrender.

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She has already surrendered so much that she has little left to surrender."

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He sent word to Grant that he was ready to discuss surrender.

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General MacArthur was chosen to accept the Japanese surrender in nineteen forty-five.

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It said: "I now request to meet with you at such time and place as you may name to discuss the terms of the surrender of this army."

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MacArthur was chosen to accept the Japanese surrender in September, nineteen forty-five.

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Colonel Lee wrote a message to John Brown demanding his surrender.

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Within a year,the army forced most of the Sioux to surrender.

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The representative said the American force had one hour to surrender.

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Johnston said he had the power to surrender all the Confederate armies everywhere in the South he said he would do so if Sherman agreed on a political settlement.

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Then he said: "No man on earth is more ready than I am to surrender anything which I have proposed and to accept in its place anything that is better.

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He told Beauregard to demand the surrender of Fort Sumter.

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Queen Liliuokalani was forced to surrender.

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Nationalist leader Emilio Aguinaldo, however,refused to surrender.

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As expected, Brown refused to surrender.

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