That is called surrender.
That's what they called it when Gen. Robert E. Lee did it. When continuing is useless and only means soldiers dying needlessly, it is the proper and necessary thing to do.
That’s what they called it when Gen. Robert E. Lee did it.
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One overlooked point, the President of the Confederacy, Davis didn’t surrender, his top military General did.
My father, a decorated WWII infantryman, noted they started taking in 100,000 surrendering Germans a month in the end of Feb, March and April, months before Germany officially surrendered…..
Think Ukraine.