For all practical purpose, the general in charge of all US military affairs, Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee, the general in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia. The surrender took place at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865. It was an unconditional surrender. It took almost a month before all Southern forces learned of the surrender. Lee refused to back ideas by some Southerners to wage a guerrilla war. So none were attempted.
One British army under General Cornwallis surrendered in 1781 at Yorktown. This did not result in a full surrender by the British. The British Army and Navy continued to hold all of the major seaports until a final treaty was accepted by both sides in 1783.
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General U.S. Grant accepted the surrender of the south at appomattox courthouse.
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
In August of 1945, the British Allies accepted the surrender of Japanese troops in southern Vietnam. Lord Mountbatten, who was the Supreme Allied Commander of the Southeast Asia Command accepted the surrender, and later the French reasserted control of Saigon.
One British army under General Cornwallis surrendered in 1781 at Yorktown. This did not result in a full surrender by the British. The British Army and Navy continued to hold all of the major seaports until a final treaty was accepted by both sides in 1783.
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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.
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General Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of the south at appomattox courthouse.
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.