General Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis, was a British general who was surrounded by French troops and had to surrender which ended the American Revolution.
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General U.S. Grant accepted the surrender of the south at appomattox courthouse.
General McArthur and several Admirals in the Navy accepted the surrender of Japan and they signed the surrender documents with the Japanese officials on one of the US naval ships.
General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of the south at appomattox courthouse.
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Mac didn't surrender; he accepted the surrender on the USS Missouri.
On the 21st of August. General Hsiao Yi-shu, Chief of Staff of the Chinese Army Headquarters at Chihkiang in Hunan accepted the surrender.
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Yorktown, 1781
General Douglas MacArthur accepted the surrender of Japan on 2nd of Sept. 1945, in Tokyo Bay. Japan was the last to surrender among the Axis.