Day 767: capitulate

Because defeat was sure, the general was willing to capitulate.

Artwork
Jacques-Louis David : Unfinished portrait of General Bonaparte (1797-1798)

Word of the day
capitulate: to surrender on certain terms; to give in; to acquiesce

Quote of the day
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance