W.E.B. Dubois im pretty sure said that
The atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
He was captured and killed when he refused to surrender.
They refused to sell goods to them.
The surrender of Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox on April 9th 1865. This was the biggest of the Confederate armies in the field, and its surrender is taken as the notional end of the war, although some smaller units were still in action for a few more weeks. There was never a peace treaty, because there had never been a declaration of war in the first place - Lincoln refused to recognise the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.
The surrender that began the Civil War was the surrender of Fort Sumter. This occurred on April 13, 1861, when Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard bombarded the fort, forcing its surrender. This event marked the beginning of the Civil War.
The New Netherland governor that refused to surrender to England was Peter Stuyvesant. He refused to surrender because of an issue over territorial rights between the Dutch and English settlements in the New World.
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They burned the city down
they refused anyway
The Germans refused to surrender to the Soviets. The Soviets forced the Germans to surrender.
Leningrad.
Stalingrad
Pursued to a farm in Virginia, where he refused to surrender and was fatally shot.
Japan refused to surrender after the first atomic bomb.
Ferguson refused to surrender until he was shot from his horse and killed.
Japan refused to surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima.
Thebeleaguer crew was outgunned, out-manned, and outranked, but they valiantly refused to surrender.