From the The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance, from McSweeney's mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales.
"Jefferson Drake was an inveterate reader of novels for boys. In these tales there were ever only three possible destinies available to those who found themselves in such a grave predicament. For Heroic Britons, there were the Fighting Martyrdom, guns blazing, and the Impossible Stand, holding out till help arrived. For a noble enemy - Russian, German, Pathan, the odd renegade Frenchman or Iroquois - there was only Defeat Without Surender, choosing to end one's own life rather than face the ignominy of inevitable capture. (For "savage" enemies such possiblities rarely arose, for these traveled almost exclusively in Swarms or Hordes, and so never found themselves Surrounded.)
Sounds a lot like PbtA moves to me.
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