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Sentence Examples In one of these pieces concrete labyrinthian housing blocks replace the green slopes of Puncak, a favorite mountain retreat for Jakartans. Appleton's retreat starts at 6.15 am with meditation, followed by t'ai chi overlooking the sea, then breakfast and meditation practice. Fast track may well be dead, but nobody should take that to mean that the U.S. is going to retreat into autarky. He has tried to retreat into national economic autarky, with disastrous results. Many call for a retreat to a mythical past when, they claim, national governments regulated and controlled the economy in the interests of all. Quietly I began to retreat down the stairs, my heart thumping wildly with fear for my life. We sent our Director of Enterprise up to Nashua on a three-day management retreat and he came back all agog over this particular system. Sounding the retreat in late September 1903, Harrison signaled the surrender of the professional politicians. I have always understood the Angles, Saxons and Jutes were Germanic tribes who moved to Britain following the retreat of the Roman Empire. Ronin surmised that no one had escaped the fight unscathed, and he began wondering if he should've called a retreat in the first place. His protest involves, however, no retreat into a mythical golden age and sternly rejects any hints of aestheticism. Their retreat left a vacuum east of the Elbe River now filled by immigrating tribes that the Germans loosely classified as Wends. The great mystics and saints have told us that the spiritual journey does include a kind of retreat from the world. From this morning I am going into 'radio silence' for the next 4 days as I'm off to a remote retreat in Scotland. But, once he stopped taking his medication, he didn't simply become unhinged or retreat into suicidal illness. Like the general who burned the boats upon landing, leaving no retreat for his soldiers, Smith decided to sell the traditional mills. Marin shifted a bit on his feet, before deciding that a strategic retreat was definitely called for. After the wedding breakfast, the couple will honeymoon at Birkhall, the Highland retreat which was the Queen Mother's favourite. Values such as scientific rationalism and secularism are today on the retreat in all areas of life, and across the board in education. Lenin, however, was astute enough to realize that a strategic retreat was required. Show More Sentences There can be no quietism, no reactionary traditionalism, no retreat from the world. Faced with the classic choice of writing or living, he finds himself capable of neither, and ponders a retreat into literary quietism. The southern army began its retreat to Virginia late on 4 July, its wagon train of wounded soldiers stretching for seventeen miles. He feels the need to retreat into impersonal abstractions, into structures or alleged structures over which the victim has no control. Parliament and public greeted this imperial retreat with a fanfare of acclamation. When she had 'the mulligrubs' she would retreat to her lair in the sitting-room. However, surrounding tribes rose up and forced a desperate retreat through mountainous country. Last night the cavalry covered the retreat of the last troops from Manassas, though there was hardly any opposition, if any at all. The fusillade to protect his retreat began and as he went, keeping low, he dragged with him the spool of wire to be connected to the detonator. In North America, the Arctic tundra is expected to retreat northwards and be replaced by forest. On the evening of 4th July, under cover of sheeting rain, he set his men in retreat towards Virginia. The retreat of some taxa to the tropics and subtropics is partly explained by climatic cooling beginning in the Oligocene. He also taught in Latin America and went on an extended retreat with the Trappists. He could be both hortatory and minatory in his public utterances and yet retreat to a small, still voice in the solitude of his study. The British retreat to Boston was the high-water mark for American militiamen during the war. But as students of military science well know, a strategic retreat is one of the most difficult maneuvers to pull off. The later Middle Ages was a period when royal feudal rights are usually considered to have been in retreat in England. As the Union retreat continued, a mammoth bottleneck developed at Frayser's Farm, halting the withdrawal. Thus, we either let down our minority officers by failing to administer tough love or we retreat into the safety of formal processes. What was supposed to be a sequestered monastic retreat became a hive of modern American productive activity. Show More Sentences The Jacobites managed an orderly retreat and William's forces were in no condition to pursue. Michaela almost took a step back in retreat but she checked herself and lifted her chin. But speaking outside a regional police chiefs conference in Bali today, there was no sign that he's beating a retreat from his position. In fact, he beat a hasty retreat at the first opportunity promising to get the bid and a list of references to me later in the week. A fierce, icy wind whipped up the lake's fiery red surface and forced us to beat a hasty retreat from our lakeside walk. They seemed to have made a cowardly retreat and were most likely shivering in fear from the sound of her giant robot's earth-shaking footsteps. He thought of feigning illness and beating a hasty retreat but, after much deliberation, decided to chance it. He found the attention too much and beat a hasty retreat to the States, where he spent a year writing songs in happy anonymity. Black could safely retreat the knight, but the king move brings the game to a crisis. Black's next move intends to retreat the queen to h6 if necessary, seeking to relieve some pressure through a queen trade. The order for retreat of the badly planned invasion was called and the battlegroup's admiral, Kenneth Alcolado, was forced to resign in disgrace. Too uncertain to advance with a raise, or retreat with a fold, I called, fastened to this pot like a barnacle. It is a role we should embrace with real confidence, resisting nostalgia, refusing to retreat into isolationism. Their lack of visibility is testimony to the condition of the former ruling party as an army in retreat from its political responsibilities. The government should not retreat in the face of striking workers using force. In the most recent retreat I attended, I became tensed up inside from trying to relax. More practically, it gives them a place to retreat to, escaping the stress of life in the public eye. The schizophrenic tends generally to retreat from involvement with his environment. The only time I haven't had a man cave to retreat to was during the years when I lived on my own in London. After one group had enough exercise and fresh air, they would retreat to their bunkers and the next small group would scatter forth. Show More Sentences Mrs. Robinson had let him retreat to someplace quiet to finish student evaluations. But alas, the June day teemed with rain and the street parties had to retreat indoors. A retreat into a redemptive enclave of winkingly open-minded post-Marxist scamps, it's nearly pristine in its high-minded tomfoolery. Some miles down was a great waterfall that fell into a beautiful stone haven Angharad liked to retreat to. The excitement would die down soon enough, and the school would retreat back out of the public eye. For Hewitt, nature becomes a refuge, a place to which he can retreat and escape from the rigours of life. Slumping back in his seat, the head of Sleet house let out a quiet sigh as he watched his false friends retreat from the table. Will we retreat to leave the ungrateful natives to their savagery, having spurned the gifts of our civilisation? If the water line rises far, it means a tidal wave will come and people must retreat to high ground, he said. The Waterford technique also provided this patient a place of refuge or sanctuary where she could retreat and find safety. These activists oppose international trade altogether and want every local area to retreat into a self-sufficient autarkic state. With winter coming on, Napoleon finds his invasion stalled and he is forced to retreat from Russia. There was no simple retreat from austere aristocratic classicism to bourgeois romanticism. This ill-fated attempt resulted in the death of several men under Pryor's command and forced the survivors to retreat downriver. This tactical retreat by the government will do little to resolve the problem. Thatcher lost nothing, making only a tactical retreat from a skirmish to prepare for the real battle. General Das receives word that Civantor has been forced to retreat from Canterbury. General Robert E. Lee narrowly escaped defeat this battle and the lack of men caused him and his army to retreat back in to Virginia. The retreat is a weekend of tutorials from leading business luminaries on entrepreneurship. John and Jennifer are a couple of lovebirds on their way to a weekend retreat at a cabin. Show More Sentences Their retreat had been a rout, and thousands of fleeing refugees, the elderly, women and children, had been slaughtered mercilessly. He turned, his numb and shaking legs turning his retreat into a disordered rout. Undaunted, uncluttered, untouched, this is the charm of Tobago for the celebrated citizens of the world who retreat to its shores. On retreat prior to our moving, I read and reread the story of the annunciation. Set on five acres beside a stream, the cottage sleeps nine and is perfect as a lazy retreat or an activity base. A premature attack on Mountjoy's forces resulted in a rout by his cavalry and a long retreat back to Ulster through a hostile countryside. Not long after, what had started as a careful retreat on the part of the Union became a disorganized rout. Another is to retreat into various shades of nihilism, cynicism or amoralism, gazing blankly at a world of stone. One theory is that he has suffered a trauma which has caused amnesia, one of the methods the mind uses to retreat from a shock. In contrast to this patrician style, Jefferson cherished a vision of America as a rural retreat of Arcadian innocence. During the retreat a guerrilla resistance force was organized to conduct sabotage, operating behind enemy lines. This eco retreat is located at one end of the gorge and is surrounded by zamia palms and open lawns. The remnants of the French armies were able to retreat to the frontier but Spain was lost. And thus it gives the impression of being a safe haven to which we may retreat from the unpredictability and limitlessness of experience. The mountain spa is a luxury retreat which offers rejuvenation in a wilderness setting. At last, we decided to retreat indoors for a bedtime dessert, a fresh pie made with rhubarb from the garden. As Ken surveyed my body, revulsion led my retreat into our kitchenette, where I politely excused myself. The bugler's name was Jospeh and he used to play the reveille first thing in the morning and sound the retreat each night at sunset. In that process we may see some of the more enthusiastic regulators retreat from what might otherwise become effective price regulation. Soldiers cover each other, take cover, retreat when injured, and generally work efficiently. Show More Sentences Market rates were moving higher, stocks were in retreat and then near-debacle struck in auto credit default swaps. The most fervent Jansenists opted for a life of severe self-denial and constant prayer, in retreat from the world. In Indian legend, every rishi, or yogi, who possesses divine power has a retreat in the mountain vastness of the Himalayas. Bishop Robinson will be in Ireland in October to address the annual retreat of the diocese of Limerick and Killaloe in the Dingle Skelligs hotel. Within commuting distance of Dublin, the property could also be used as a country retreat or maintained as a family run bed-and-breakfast. He wanted a quiet retreat to build his house upon and concentrate on his work. The elegant Mahogany Room piano bar offers a quiet retreat overlooking the adjacent brick courtyard. What is instead being dangled in front of Ulster's Unionists is a retreat into the laager. Cool and relaxing, the forest was a refreshing retreat from the muggy, crowded streets and alleyways of the now often crowded town. While the rest of us were toiling in Pattaya, a small group sought refuge in the mountain retreat of Soi Dao. The central court is conceived as the largest room in the house, providing a common area and a sheltered retreat in summer. Do not schedule anything on the retreat except morning and evening worship and meals. Many have already prepared their route of retreat by sending their children overseas and redirecting their wealth out of the country. The first two weeks of the Academy were spent in splendid isolation, with the group based in a country retreat in Wiltshire. Delphi Mountain Resort and Spa is a luxury retreat which offers rejuvenation in a wilderness setting. Fuchsia, blackthorn, limestone and seashore combine to make this a truly idyllic location, perfect as a weekend retreat or holiday home. Powerscourt Paddocks should generate interest among families seeking a rural retreat within commuting distance of Dublin. This beating of retreat was later extended to include the whole corps of drums with fifes, pipes or bugles. In minutes, the once organised starguard lines had fallen into disarray, and the retreat was sounded. There he held on for a time but with the Indians gaining ground he sounded a retreat and we recrossed the river. Show More Sentences The garden offers extremely enjoyable relaxation and retreat to a traveller in the psithurism and the songs of nature. Have you left yourself an exit strategy? If so, then you need to burn your boats and retreat plans. The success of the long retreat and the rearguard engagements in 1944 and 1945 came despite, rather than because of, Hitler. Jeb started to retreat from the room as Megan began to unleash the notorious Addelson temper. And while the distribution of that prosperity is often unequal and unjust, it's hard to see how a retreat to autarchy would make it any less unjust. Find a relatively peaceful place where the child can retreat if the noise and hullabaloo get to be too much. Many politicians who had taken a shellacking would retreat to their home base and start rebuilding a career. A call for retreat issued from somewhere in Elvish, followed by a horn, a single ringing note that bellowed over the clash of weapons and roars of beasts. Throughout the early hours of the battle, the warriors repeated this action in an attempt to collapse Carter's line and force him to retreat across the river. At least that would give us time to retreat to safer grounds. The Tin Dog, a Byron hinterland retreat surrounded by subtropical rainforest and macadamia plantations, is the creation of former Sydney-siders, Mark and Sue Kelly. However, on August 26th, a British rearguard guarding the retreat of the bulk of the BEF did sustain 8,000 casualties at the Battle of Le Chateau. For lovers of peace and tranquility, this retreat is coming up on the Natham Road, at a distance of 20 km from the city, amidst sylvan surroundings. However it all made perfect sense for the computer, as it thought that Kramnik's best was to retreat his knight, then it would repeat its move too, settling for a draw. Some of her friends were surprised by her retreat from public life following her defeat in the election. So, there's no mill, no stream to power said mill, and no quaint hedge-rowed Brit township or timbered farm-houses for the characters to retreat into. When you spend a good time alone, like a week, without hardly saying a word to anyone, with hardly any phone calls, you tend to retreat into lumbering bear mode. Once just a set of tumbledown cottages, this is now a retreat centre. It is traditionally a winter retreat for royals such as Prince Michael of Kent and King Juan Carlos of Spain, but it is fast becoming a playground for nouveau riche Russians. Haddad flew back immediately to find his city rising up, and is now beating a hasty retreat on the bus-fare increase. Show More Sentences I found another theory that held that the plundering and subsequent destruction of the palaces, such as Knossos, was the cause for the retreat of Minoan culture. With the jury still out, we retreat to the back corner of the court. On his island retreat he finds a mosaic of the Tree of Life, the beautiful tree laden with fruit ignored by Adam and Eve in favour of the Tree of Knowledge. When Hooker ordered a retreat instead of a counterattack, his generals refused to believe it. Yermati led a tactical retreat and the elves retired to their kingdom. When America seems to be unsure as to who should be her leader in the White House, the country does have a tendency to retreat back into its sectionalist ways. Imagine the troopers being forced to retreat into a vacant building and barricading the door because the anger and strength of the mob had reached a fever pitch. These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness. The spokesman for the office said that Jalics is leading a contemplative retreat until May 10, and cannot be reached. The solution, as perceived by successive US administrations, is not to retreat from trade liberalization but to incorporate a wider range of nations within the fold. He is happy to be the catalyst, the firestarter, the rainmaker, to agitate and organise, then retreat back to the kitchen, the office and the television studio. To the northeast, FSA brigades are preparing to retreat from a string of towns including Marea and Tell Rifaat. He developed a hypothesis for their formation called pediplanation in which slopes retreat parallel, leaving behind a series of generally flat surfaces separated by scarps. Then the opportunity to retreat to an uncle's cottage in the Penrith countryside presents itself and the budding thesps can't get there fast enough. Deng, as a result, had to argue his case, to move one step at a time, and sometimes to retreat from positions which opposition had made untenable. Perhaps Shakespeare felt that a judicious tactical retreat following rehearsal criticism was in order, but that does not brand the line a mistake. These days when a farm is put up for sale it is more likely to be snapped up by a wealthy city worker looking for a weekend retreat than taken on by a new farmer. His library became a nest, a retreat of perfect ideas perfectly poised. I think our case here would have to be that we can't get out of it, that one way or another you're in this argument, it's a very, very difficult one to retreat from. The Sunnis will find themselves marginalized and disenfranchised by this, even more so than they feel today and the Kurds are going to retreat into their shell. Show More Sentences After the retreat of the ice sheets since the last glacial maximum, northern Europe was subsequently reinvaded from several refuges in southern Europe. Over 250 were killed before Stirling ordered the final retreat and surrendered himself to the British. What Republicans will attempt to extort from the White House will be decided at their retreat in January. The retreat of winter and the beginning of the camping season provide a chance for the weekend warrior to explore Canada's vast wilderness once again. It is Mark, not Chad, who is sent to the Genesis House retreat for converting gay men to heterosexuality. Traditionally, this means a lakeside retreat complete with cabins, crafts, and nature-filled activities. Edwards lives in and has a studio in Toronto but also has a place to retreat to and draw inspiration from in the rural farm country of Canada just north of Toronto. Coming after the rejection of the European Union constitution last May, today's retreat signals to all the world what a busted flush the president is. I gave the order to retreat after half of the squadron was destroyed. We do not yet know whether different stages of a battle, such as the initial salvos, a fighting retreat and a rout, have different archaeological signatures. A few months later, they met Andie, 56 at a poly retreat in upstate New York. For Feiffer, the cold isolation of the upstate New York retreat worked like a tonic. The waves climb up the shore only to retreat back to their haven. Hazel wrote all her work by hand and on Sundays would retreat to the quiet of the nearly empty computer laboratory at Massey University to type up her thesis. He spends most weekends at a hideaway retreat near Powerscourt Waterfall that he bought about two years ago from Dublin businessman Harry Crosbie. She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans. With falling temperatures, retreat has become a much more attractive option than before. But with the opposition in retreat and the media silenced, can Belarus escape his grip? However, it was never intended as a stronghold in the sense that Clitheroe Castle was, but simply a place of retreat from the marauding bands of Border raiders. The original Auroran settlers had landed in the location that was now the park and decided to keep it as a peaceful retreat in the centre of the city. Show More Sentences The clamor would have ceased as the matriarch led a retreat and the danger would have seemed to pass. The brash, engaged, occasionally self-centered ex-lawmaker seemed to retreat inward and practically disappear. Food Destination A unique cultural retreat experience awaits you on the other side of the world The Linden Center, Dali China. After 2 hours spent sitting in bivouac bags the storm showed no sign of clearing and the decision was made to retreat before fresh windslab built up in the blizzard. Sitting a three-month retreat can rearrange your whole view of practice. Leaders will deny, blame, seek scapegoats, and retreat to their offices. Jonathan then lunged for the boy at the door, who quickly turned around and beat a hasty retreat away from the house, forgetting his flowers and his car. Ultra-rich people who launch a headlong retreat from political affairs will not be immune. At this point the imaginary cops are throwing me down and tear-gassing me, so I retreat from the Wonderful World of My Imagination, back into the far-safer reality. So they neurotically retreat into an alternate universe in which everything feels better. Finally, he attacked them how they least expected it, by feigning a retreat to draw his opponents into a trap. Miss Taft has a very collegey looking retreat of two rooms beyond the sitting-room end of the corridor. The lovers she seems to pursue with her figurative language in fact retreat under the barrage of similes, metaphors and fables. The retreat of the glaciers allowed groups of Asians to migrate to the Americas and populate them. Finding himself cut off in enemy territory, he began a land retreat during which he was mortally wounded. These captures secured William's rear areas and also his line of retreat to Normandy, if that was needed. King Philip of France later relieved the siege and defeated William at Dol, forcing him to retreat back to Normandy. At Winchester, Robert of Gloucester was captured while covering Matilda's retreat so Matilda freed Stephen in exchange for Robert. Without a united command the army had little choice but to retreat back to the coast. By the end of August disease and a shortage of supplies had reduced his army, and he had to order a retreat towards his base at Dunbar. Show More Sentences The resulting campaign witnessed the collapse and retreat of the Grand Army along with the widespread destruction of Russian lands and cities. The French army did nothing to stop a rather leisurely retreat that took place throughout the night and into the early morning by the Prussians. Napoleon sent his army north in pursuit of the Allies, but then ordered his forces to retreat so that he could feign a grave weakness. The Allies now had new, harsher terms that included the retreat of France to its 1791 boundaries, which meant the loss of Belgium. Napoleon attempted suicide with a pill he had carried after nearly being captured by the Russians during the retreat from Moscow. With their retreat route cut off, the FAC kadogo began defecting in droves, many fleeing across the border into Zambia. A large French assault at the end of November broke the allied lines, forcing a general retreat towards Genoa. But failure, due in part to a lack of siege guns, forced him into a headlong retreat with the loss of over 2,000 casualties. Wellesley withdrew his army and, joined with the smaller corps commanded by Rowland Hill, began to retreat to Portugal. An Axis offensive in Libya forced an Allied retreat deep inside Egypt until Axis forces were stopped at El Alamein. His commander in chief, the Earl of Feversham, advised retreat on 23 November, and the next day John Churchill deserted to William. It is a ribbon lake formed in a glacial trough after the retreat of ice at the start of the current interglacial period. In 1552 Protestant princes, in alliance with Henry II of France, rebelled again, which caused Charles to retreat to the Netherlands. Throughout the Tudor period, Windsor was also used as a safe retreat in the event of plagues occurring in London. Caesar sails a fleet to Britain, but he is overwhelmed by Cassivellaunus's army and forced to retreat to Gaul. It was made into a retreat for the Prince Regent from 1812, but was largely pulled down after his death. While the boat made a quick retreat to the Jane, Teach cut the Adventure's anchor cable. His men, upon seeing this and fearing for their lives, retreat into the woods. On 29 March 1940 his long association with Tribune began with a review of a sergeant's account of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. It rarely fulfilled its intended role as a retreat for the Butes, who seldom stayed there. Show More Sentences However, the Nationalists were forced to retreat to the island of Taiwan in 1949, during the Chinese Civil War. Over the tearful protests of James himself, the French admiral chose not to risk a landing and opted to retreat instead of fight. The Hessian force, led by Prince Frederick of Hesse, took up position to the south to cut off any path of retreat for the Jacobites. The Irish picquets bravely covered the Highlanders retreat from the battlefield and prevented a massacre. Two small regiments of Canadiens were recruited during the operation, and they were with the army on its retreat back to Ticonderoga. By May, with plague rampant in his army and no sign of success against the city, Napoleon was forced to retreat into Egypt. It also meant, however, that any retreat by Kray into Austria via Switzerland and the Vorarlberg was cut off. The German retreat continued and the German Revolution put a new government in power. With the effective collapse of the entire defensive line, there was little choice left other than an overland retreat to India or to Yunnan. The Chinese troops could not retreat because the routes to Yunnan were controlled by the Thais and Japanese. He stated it was a gloomy journey amongst uninhabited islands, but he had visited one which was the retreat of holy men. Chequers, a country house in Buckinghamshire, gifted to the government in 1917, may be used as a country retreat for the Prime Minister. Neither Nicholas I nor Napoleon III nor the British government could retreat in the conflict for prestige once it was launched. The rebels attacked a British position near Lungi airport, but were forced to retreat after a series of firefights. The interior consisted largely of the vast lines of morainic stones which marked the stages of retreat of the last northern ice cap. During the 4th century, the portrait began to retreat in favor of an idealized symbol of what that person looked like. Although retaining a main home in London, from 1871 Morris rented the rural retreat of Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire. Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State successfully repulsed the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region. A feigned retreat by the Picts drew the Northumbrians into an ambush at Dun Nechtain near the lake of Linn Garan. Mortimer was forced to retreat to Dublin while his lieutenant, Walter Cusack, held out at Trim. Show More Sentences On 25 August the French commander Joseph Joffre ordered his forces to retreat to the Marne, which compelled the BEF to further withdraw. A retreat on the ports does not seem to have been decided until some days after 21 March. The glacial retreat induced by this or any other process can be amplified by similar inverse positive feedbacks as for glacial advances. When threatened, a wildcat with a den will retreat into it, rather than climb trees. It was allegedly the largest battle ever fought on the island of Ireland, and resulted in the death of Conghal and the retreat of Domhnall Brecc. Harold's death, probably near the end of the battle, led to the retreat and defeat of most of his army. The cavalry also failed to make headway, and a general retreat began, blamed on the Breton division on William's left. De Montfort, accompanied by the captive Henry, was unable to retreat and the Battle of Evesham ensued. His place of retreat was known to Einion Bishop of Bangor and Gronw ab Dafydd, who basely betrayed him. Edward was forced to retreat south of the border, pursued by Scottish raiding parties. The retreat of the glaciers 15,000 years ago allowed groups of humans from Asia to migrate to the Americas. Subsequently under Sir John Moore, he took part in the retreat to Corunna and the final battle there. St Govan may be identified with Sir Gwaine, one of King Arthur's knights, who entered into a state of retreat in his later years. Ferdinand III the Bourbon was forced to retreat to Sicily which he was still in complete control of with the help of British naval protection. As a result, Viking raiders found it easy to sack and then retreat from these areas which were thus frequently raided. The World Glacier Monitoring Service collects data annually on glacier retreat and glacier mass balance. Managed retreat is an alternative to constructing or maintaining coastal structures. Managed retreat is often a response to a change in sediment budget or to sea level rise. Alternatively, with managed retreat the shoreline is left to erode, while relocating buildings and infrastructure further inland. Managed retreat moves structures and other infrastructure inland as the shoreline erodes. Show More Sentences After having set fire to the village and having massacred the population, he was obliged to beat a retreat under the powerful walls of the abbey. The Ninth Army had been bypassed on both flanks and was ordered to retreat from the Meuse to a line from Charleroi to Rethel. German forces followed up quickly and on 16 June, Altmayer ordered the army to retreat into the Brittany peninsula. Only a few British survivors managed to retreat to the south bank of the Somme. Weygand was unmoved, only giving permission for the division to retreat over the Seine if it was pushed back from the Andelle. Weygand ordered the IX Corps to retreat to Les Andelys and Rouen, which had already fallen. The commandos from six craft who did land on Yellow I were beaten back and, unable to safely retreat or join the main force, had to surrender. Secondly, the location and dates of terminal moraines tell us the areal extent and retreat of past ice sheets. Wolves do not bark as loudly or continuously as dogs do, but bark a few times and retreat from perceived danger. The retreat was accelerated as sea levels rose and floated glacial termini. But, a compilation of archaeosite dates throughout eastern Siberia suggest that the cooling period caused a retreat of humans southwards. In contrast, a climate reconstruction based on glacial length shows no great variation from 1600 to 1850 but strong retreat thereafter. At daybreak, satisfied the retreat was not a trap, Caesar sent cavalry to harass the rear guard, followed by three legions. He raided the coast as far as Sandwich but was forced to retreat when King Harold called out land and naval forces. Though the French prevailed, the British were able to retreat into Quebec and hold it against a siege that lasted for a fortnight. The arrival of British ships and reinforcements ended the French offensive and forced them to retreat in the direction of Montreal. Many people in the Balkans place their greatest folk heroes in the era of either the onslaught or the retreat of the Ottoman Empire. The last Neanderthals seem to have been forced to retreat during this process to the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula. His retreat was in vain, however, as he was overtaken by the Germanic cavalry and killed shortly thereafter, according to Velleius Paterculus. The Aurelian retreat was a purely military decision to withdraw the Roman troops to defend the Danube. Show More Sentences They led to a retreat of a big part of the population to the mountainous areas in Eastern Carpathians and to Transylvania. After Julian's death, Ammianus accompanied retreat of the new emperor Jovian as far as Antioch. His report describes accurately the characteristic sequence of earthquake, retreat of the sea and sudden giant wave. However, a Hunnic army bypassed the Goths and attacked them from the rear, forcing Athanaric to retreat towards the Carpathian Mountains. The retreat of the Mamluks and Arabs enabled the Portuguese to implement their strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean. More than a hundred Cossacks were killed, but their gunfire forced a Tatar retreat and allowed the capture of two Tatar cannons. Crossing the river at night, he surprised them and forced their army to retreat after the first cavalry skirmish. The Genoese emerged victorious, while the Pisan galleys, having received no help, were forced to retreat to the port of Pisa. The Mongols were forced to retreat within months each time by other forces in the area, primarily the Egyptian Mamluks. Charles VIII had himself crowned King of Naples on 12 May, but a few days later began his retreat northward. Kosmin, Indica depicts contemporary India as an unconquerable territory, in order to justify Seleucus's retreat from India. When they abandoned Ternate, some of the people accompanied the Spanish in their retreat to the Philippines. The Portuguese managed to retreat and made their way to Malacca in October. Back on board but lacking enough water, de Mello decided to retreat and return to Malacca. During the retreat from Moscow, more French military personnel died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. On Sunday April 30 the British ceased their attack and began their retreat from San Juan. The civilians prevailed, and a very angry Frederick Henry had to order an ignominious retreat of the Dutch invading force. It seems the natives attacked and killed about 35 settlers before the Frenchmen could retreat behind their fortifications. Zwingli, the papal partisan, found himself in a difficult position and he decided to retreat to Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz. However, his son Humayun was defeated by the Afghan warrior Sher Shah Suri in the year 1540, and Humayun was forced to retreat to Kabul. Find more words! 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