surrender papers
Formal concession agreement
Surrender papers are official documents formalizing the end of armed conflict, signed by the defeated party to acknowledge defeat and cease hostilities.
The term evokes historic moments like Japan's signing aboard the USS Missouri in 1945.
More loosely, surrender papers can mean any formal concession of defeat: After the merger fell through, they basically handed us the surrender papers.
- capitulationComplete yielding to demands
- laying down armsAgreeing to stop fighting
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- white flagSignal of capitulation
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- war memorabiliawar medals, dog tags, insignia, rank insignia, badges
- Civil War recordsmilitary records, battle maps, service records, Union Army, casualty lists
- military recordsmilitary records, service records, after action report, military rosters, military archives
surrender papersdeclaration of war
Formal announcement of hostilities
war declaration · mobilization orders · call to arms · ultimatum · casus belli
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