" In Oxford he ( Harvey ) very soon settled down to his accustomed pursuits, unmindful of the clatter of arms and of the constant marching and countermarching around him, for the city remained the base of operations until its surrender ... "

When it became clear that the King was losing the Civil War, and only Oxford held out, Hale decided to act as a commissioner to negotiate its surrender, fearing that the city might otherwise be destroyed.

After the ensuing siege and surrender of Oxford in 1646, Parliament banished both Rupert and his brother from England.

In 1646 he was given a regiment in the New Model, serving with Sir Thomas in the west of England, and he was a commissioner, with Cromwell and others, for the surrender of Oxford in the same year.

* May 5-Martin Llewellyn's drama The King Found at Southwell is performed at Oxford ; it is the last stage piece presented in the city before its surrender to Parliamentary forces in the English Civil War, June 22-4.

He was present at the Battle of Edgehill in October 1642, after which, while hurrying to Oxford to prepare for the king's visit to Christ Church, he was captured by a troop of Lord Say's soldiers from Broughton House, and soon afterwards set free on the surrender of the place to the king's forces.

After most of his men had deserted and he had been wounded in the face with an arrow, Oxford was eventually compelled to surrender on 15 February 1474, along with his two brothers and Beaumont.

Following the surrender of Oxford in 1646 Dugdale returned to Blyth Hall and compounded for his estates under the terms of the Oxford articles.

He refused to comply with the provisions imposed on the King at Oxford in 1258, and took refuge in Wolvesey Castle at Winchester, where he was besieged and compelled to surrender and leave the country.

On 8 November 1645 he was created Baron Gerard, of Brandon in the County of Suffolk ; but about the same time he appears to have forfeited Charles's favour by having attached himself to the party of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, with whom after the surrender of Oxford Gerard probably went abroad.

* 24 June, Siege of Oxford ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison.

If he stayed in the Severn valley, Essex would be unable to get reinforcements or outside aid, the London elements of the army would demand to go home, and the one remaining significant Parliamentarian force would find itself pinned down, while Charles, with secure bases at Oxford and Bristol, would be able to starve them into surrender while other Royalist armies ran rampant through Britain.

After the Confederate surrender, Williams returned to Granville County, North Carolina and developed the Oxford and Henderson Railroad, of which he was the president.

Benson is one of several key sites of the English civil war in thin South Oxfordshire, lying between the site of the Battle of Chalgrove Field ( which took place on 18 June 1643 ) and Wallingford Castle, reputedly the last Royalist stronghold to surrender, and close to the Royalist cities of Oxford and Newbury.

Lord Aston was a staunch Royalist during the English Civil War: he was present at the Siege of Lichfield in 1643 and the surrender of Oxford ; King Charles I expressed his regret at not being able to reward him as he deserved. After the failure of the Royalist cause he was required to compound for his estates and live in private.

However, as the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby — already the target of action in 1644 — was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646.

After four months ' imprisonment Morton was released without a trial, and remained unmolested at Durham House, in The Strand, till April 1645, when he was again brought before the bar of the House of Commons on the charges of baptising the infant daughter of the Earl of Rutland according to the rites of the Church of England, and of refusing to surrender the seal of the County palatine of Durham.

Devizes remained under Royalist control until 1645, when Oliver Cromwell attacked and forced the Royalists to surrender.

However, as the war progressed and Royalist fortunes waned, Ashby — already the target of action in 1644 — was subject to a prolonged siege between September 1645 and its surrender in March 1646.

Ludovic was taken prisoner at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1644 and was condemned to death, but the sentence was not carried out, and in 1645 he was released by Montrose, under whom he served until the surrender of the King at Newark-on-Trent.

He brought word of the surrender of Winchester Castle on 7 October 1645.

Egypt's final surrender following Cleopatra's death also marks the final demise of both the Hellenistic Period and the Ptolemaic Kingdom.

As part of the deal, John offered to surrender the Kingdom of England to the papacy for a feudal service of 1, 000 marks ( equivalent to £ 666 at the time ) annually: 700 marks (£ 466 ) for England and 300 marks (£ 200 ) for Ireland, as well as recompensing the church for revenue lost during the crisis.

* 1492: Boabdil's surrender of Granada marks the end of the Spanish Reconquista and Al-Andalus.

The 1492 surrender of the Islamic Emirate of Granada to the Catholic Monarchs is one of the most significant events in Granada's history as it marks the completion of the Reconquista of Al-Andalus.

Llywelyn responded by invading his lands, first threatening Brecon, where the burgesses offered hostages for the payment of 100 marks, then heading for Swansea where Reginald de Braose met him to offer submission and to surrender the town.

He was prosecuted for riot in connection with the surrender of the charter of Nottingham in 1682, and tried before George Jeffreys, who fined him 500 marks.

In the following days, Comnenus must have realised all was lost and subsequently made an offer of 20, 000 marks of gold and 500 men-at-arms to Richard, and also promised to surrender his daughter and castles as a pledge for his good behaviour.

A memorial marks the spot of the formal surrender about 2 km south-west of the centre of town.

* 1944 – Continuation war: the Soviet Union demands an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive.

* 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.

Brutus refused to surrender the province and Antony set out to attack him in the beginning of 43 BC, besieging him at Mutina.

After Japan's surrender to the Allied Powers, division at the 38th parallel marked the beginning of Soviet and U. S. trusteeship over the North and South, respectively.

The major consequence of Cornwallis's surrender was the beginning of negotiations that eventually resulted in peace and British recognition of the independent United States of America.

* 1945-August — Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ; surrender of Japan ( V-J Day ); beginning of the nuclear age.

The Japanese had reached the high-water mark of their conquests in the Pacific, and Guadalcanal marked the transition by the Allies from defensive operations to the strategic offensive in that theatre and the beginning of offensive operations, including the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Central Pacific campaigns, that resulted in Japan's eventual surrender and the end of World War II.

Emperor Hirohito's tour of the destroyed areas of Tokyo in March 1945 is said to have been the beginning of his personal involvement in the peace process, culminating in Japan's surrender six months later.

When Fort Sumter was forced to surrender at the beginning of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln offered Lee command of the federal army.

The Native Americans had received the worse of the fighting throughout this conflict, and as they began to surrender, they were herded to existing reservations, beginning in January, 1856 when one group was marched to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation west of Salem.

At the beginning of the July – August 1945 Potsdam Conference after Germany's unconditional surrender, Stalin repeated previous promises to Churchill that he would refrain from a " sovietization " of Central Europe.

In March 1801, Britain sent a fleet to Denmark, bombarding Copenhagen and forcing them to surrender in the beginning of April.

Even after that some individual soldiers and units refused to surrender and become beginning elements of the resistance to the Japanese occupation.

For my part, I made up my mind from the beginning that the middle-aged husband of the old lady was in every way qualified to murder her, and I refused to surrender this conviction when suspicion of him is scattered for a moment.

Henry's eastern campaigns to Brandenburg and Meissen, the establishment of Saxon marches as well as the surrender of Duke Wenceslaus of Bohemia marked the beginning of the German eastward expansion ( Ostsiedlung ).

In 1296, King John Balliol wrote a letter of surrender from the castle to Edward I of England after a short war which marked the beginning of the wars of Scottish independence.

In 1782 they joined forces with other members of the Opposition to bring down the North government which had overseen the American War since the beginning, and was blamed for the surrender of the British army at Yorktown.

Würzburg's increasing secularisation as a bishopric and its eventual surrender to Bavarian rule at the beginning of the nineteenth century resulted in the inevitable loss of the university's Roman Catholic character.

He was present at the beginning of surrender negotiations between the Japanese emissaries and American military officials on Iejima in 1945.

On the morning of 28 October, a fortnight after Jena and three weeks after the beginning of hostilities, Hohenlohe refused two French demands that he surrender.

Allen, who had been outraged at the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga to Burgoyne at the beginning of July, complained to Stark that if his men did not get to fight at Bennington they would never answer another call to arms.

The Invasion of Poland was fought in Poland between invading German and Soviet forces and defending Polish forces, beginning with the invasion of Poland by Germany under operational plan Fall Weiss on September 1, 1939, and concluding with the surrender of the last Polish military forces on October 6, 1939.

Most likely Appius went out with Lucullus from the beginning in early 73 BC, although he is not directly attested in the east until the autumn of 71 following the occupation of eastern Kappadokia Pontike, when Lucullus sent him to the Armenian king Tigranes to demand the surrender of Mithridates VI.

Crawford was present for Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865, making him one of the few soldiers to be present at both the beginning and the effective end of the Civil War.