All the captains and superior officers, with all the lords and gentlemen, as well in commission as volunteers, to surrender prisoners at discretion, only that they should not be plundered by the soldiers.

Perhaps they had revolted along with those they were supposed to rule; but more likely they had been slaughtered, or had merely surrendered and were now prisoners.

His plan is to win the Cabinet's approval for a withdrawal that the Americans would accept and to link it to negotiations on a final settlement, then to link the entire proposal to a series of conditions that the Palestinians would either reject or fail to fulfill, like surrendering prisoners to Israel.

But he said he later was shocked to be ordered to execute surrendering prisoners and to see carnage on the road leaving Kuwait City after U.S. troops routed the Iraqi army.

Other surrendering prisoners had looked dirty and exhausted, but these somehow appeared more desperate.

We did not consider that the captains of ships have no authority to act thus; and if we had surrendered prisoners to them, they could not answer the destroying us, or torturing us, but would be accountable for it when they came to their country.

The government agreed not to station security forces on Bougainville on condition that the BRA disbanded itself and surrendered its weapons and prisoners to an international peace-keeping force.

"The Spartans do not like surrendering prisoners," said Parmenion.

In return the BRA undertook to surrender its weapons and prisoners to a multinational peacekeeping force drawn from other Pacific countries.

But being "seized with sorrow and regret for having surrendered his towns and prisoners", and determined never to "submit himself to the law, or to the mercy of the council of Ireland", he fled in the beginning of June to France.