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Vlad Burlutskiy is a civic and political activist from Russia who fled the country last year due to increasing threats.
Wahlberg fled from the scene and approached a bystander, Hoa Trinh, also Vietnamese.
Aisha Gaddafi fled Libya in August as opposition forces closed in on Tripoli.
His grandfather, alfonso XIII, fled the country during the civil war in 1931 and abandoned his estates and most of his fortune.
According to the cable, aline initially fled to the U.K. after confronting Hannibal and threatening to leave the marriage.
Police put out an all-points bulletin but fear that the men have already fled Britain.
The crowd that accumulated to watch the squabble reportedly applauded and cheered as Bieber fled the scene.
In the aftermath of Massaga and Ora, numerous Assakenians fled to the fortress of Aornos.
By the time Galerius awoke the following morning, Constantine had fled too far to be caught.
In 413 he led an invasion of Italia, lost to a subordinate of Constantius, and fled back to Africa where he was murdered by Constantius's agents.
The Mongols who fled to the Buryat region and Inner Mongolia returned after the war.
After the fall of Baghdad in 1258, a few of Abbasid princes fled to Syria and Egypt.
Convicted on the charges, Becket stormed out of the trial and fled to the Continent.
According to medieval legend, Idris ibn Abdallah had fled to Morocco after the Abbasids' massacre of his tribe in Iraq.
The Jin dynasty collapsed in 1234 when the Mongols captured Caizhou, the town where Wanyan Shouxu had fled.
Becket's assassins fled north to Knaresborough Castle, which was held by Hugh de Morville, where they remained for about a year.
Orestes fled to the city of Pavia on August 23, 476, where the city's bishop gave him sanctuary.
When spring arrived, the Italian merchants fled on their ships, unknowingly carrying the Black Death.
When this failed he fled the city, and Parliament retaliated by removing Sir John Byron, the Lieutenant of the Tower.
M Turay went into hiding and fled the country to Guinea, fearing for his life.
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After Jugurtha defeated him in open battle, Adherbal fled to Rome for help.
As the governor Ibn Habib was looking for him, he then fled to the more powerful Zanata Berber confederacy, who were enemies of Ibn Habib.
After losing an initial battle near Cordoba, Yusuf fled to Merida, where he raised a large Berber army.
Yusuf fled to Toledo, and was either killed on the way, or after reaching Toledo.
Sulayman fled to the Berber garrison of Valencia, where he held out for two years.
Sulayman was defeated in battle in 800 and fled to the Berber stronghold in Merida, but was captured before reaching it and executed in Cordoba.
To avoid being destroyed, the Berbers left Cordoba and fled towards Algeciras.
The antirally demonstrators broke windows and forced their way into the building as the terrified audience fled in the opposite direction.
After the fall of Cordoba in 1013, the Saqaliba fled from the city to secure their own fiefdoms.
Meanwhile, Ferdinand had fled to Sicily, where he retained his throne, despite successive attempts by Murat to invade the island.
The fall of the city on 26 January 1939, caused a mass exodus of civilians who fled to the French border.
Most of the conspirators fled from London as they learned of the plot's discovery, trying to enlist support along the way.
In the interim, thousands of the enslaved Africans had fled to Palmares, and soon the mocambos there had grown into two significant states.
On 15 June 1838, an army led by the Colorado leader Rivera overthrew President Oribe, who fled to Argentina.
Turpin fled from the scene and shortly afterwards killed a man who attempted his capture.
Those who fled to Genoa were only allowed to land provided they received baptism.
After a fierce fight during which the Sultan appeared with an army of war elephants, the defenders were dispersed and the Sultan fled.
On 15 August, the Portuguese attacked again, but the Sultan had fled the city.
The actual numbers of Bandanese who were killed, forcibly expelled or fled the islands in 1621 remain uncertain.
Once Wheeler's confession became apparent, the other members of the gang fled their usual haunts.
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After the fall of Fuzhou in October 1646, the Longwu Emperor's brother Zhu Yuyue fled by sea to Guangzhou.
Sun fled to Shanghai in November 1918 until the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming restored him in October 1920 during the Yuegui Wars.
On 16 June 1922, Sun was ousted in a coup and fled on the warship Yongfeng after Chen sided with the Zhili Clique's Beijing government.
After the witches perform a mad dance and leave, Lennox enters and tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England.
About half of the residents had fled the city, including President George Washington.
The elite inhabitants of the city either fled or were captured, and never returned to collect their abandoned property.
Maxtla similarly turned against the Acolhua, and the king of Texcoco, Nezahualcoyotl, fled into exile.
It is often debated why the Aztecs took little action against the Spanish and their allies after they fled the city.
When Panama was colonized, the indigenous peoples fled into the forest and nearby islands.
King Burgred of Mercia fought in vain against the Ivar the Boneless and his Danish invaders for three years until 874, when he fled to Europe.
Persecution diminished the number of Huguenots who remained in France, as many fled to Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, and England.
However, enforcement of the Edict grew increasingly irregular over time, making life so intolerable that many fled the country.
Akerman, hundreds of Klansmen were arrested while 2000 Klansmen fled the state.
The Spanish fled for the Tlaxcaltec during the Noche Triste, where they managed a narrow escape while their backguard was massacred.
Isaac and Maria married shortly before the Spanish siege of Antwerp in 1585 after which they fled to settle in Amsterdam.
The inhabitants had also fled the city, preventing their enlistment for aid.
Defeated and disgraced, Karacha fled south to the steppes of the Ishim, where Kuchum waited.
Kuchum fled, but the Russians killed two of his sons and captured five other sons, eight wives and eight daughters.
Finally at Nidaros, now Trondheim, he was acclaimed king at the Eyrathing, and in a few months Olaf fled to Sweden.
Around 1594 most of them fled back to the Aga and Nerchinsk in order to escape subjection by the Daurs.
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The Buryat refugees fled to Mongolia and resettled, however, only a few of them joined the Shambala rebellion there.
Two years later they were defeated by the local Tungus and fled down the river.
She said that Fedot died of scurvy, some of his companions were killed by the Koryaks and the rest fled in small boats to an unknown fate.
The Russians were attacked and fled, some going west to the sea of Okhotsk.
Chilperic fled with his ducal ally to the land south of the Loire and Ragenfrid fled to Angers.
Joseph Miller states that African buyers would prefer males, but in reality women and children would be more easily captured as men fled.
Refugees from slavery fled the South across the Ohio River to the North via the Underground Railroad.
Others fled or crowded into refugee camps operated by the Freedmen's Bureau.
When the English captured Jamaica in 1655, the Spanish colonists fled after freeing their slaves.
There still were many Loyalists, but they were no longer in control anywhere by July 1776, and all of the Royal officials had fled.
Facing starvation and homeless for the winter, the Iroquois fled to the Niagara Falls area and to Canada, mostly to what became Ontario.
As the British crown took control of type founding in 1637 printers fled to the Netherlands.
After the death of their leader, Chief Phillip Metcomet, most of those peoples fled inland, splitting into the Abenaki and the Schaghticoke.
Baji Rao, however, easily routed the novice Mughal general and the rest of the imperial Mughal army fled.
Sensing that he was about to be indicted in retribution he fled to France in March 1792 to avoid imprisonment.
By 1859, rebel leaders Bakht Khan and Nana Sahib had either been slain or had fled.
Mena fled Managua with his brother, the chief of police of Managua, to start an insurrection.
Some of William's Breton troops panicked and fled, and some of the English troops appear to have pursued the fleeing Bretons.
Critics considered it a complete failure and Jullien was ruined and fled to America.
The image which she had called up was too much for her nerves, and she fled incontinently.
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Anne and Sarah fled from Whitehall by a back staircase, putting themselves under the care of Bishop Compton.
After the coup, Marx lost his Prussian citizenship, was deported, and fled to Paris and then London.
Many South Sudanese fled to Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda where they interacted with the nationals and learned their languages and culture.
Edgar, having lost much of his support, fled to Scotland, where King Malcolm III was married to Edgar's sister Margaret.
Unfortunately he was forced to leave her behind when he fled to Le Havre and boarded the American ship Liberty, bound for New York.
During this period of systematic exploitation, about 800,000 Belgians fled the Southern Netherlands.
When Victor saw the creature come to life he fled the apartment, though the newborn creature approached him, as a child would a parent.
One of the main lineages fled from the Kong ancestral home in Qufu during the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s and eventually settled in Taiwan.
The main branch of the family which fled to Taiwan was never involved in the proposed DNA test at all.
The head of the household at that time left the land in trust to a friend and fled the country.
Because of this, Ethelred fled to Normandy in 1013, when he was forced from his kingdom by Sweyn Forkbeard.
Fell or fled from a face that shed such grace as quickens the dust of graves.
Canute and his housecarls fled south with a growing army of rebels on his heels.
Canute fled to the royal property outside the town of Odense on Funen with his two brothers.
The Norwegian Campaign continued in Northern Norway and the government fled to London on 7 June.
Emma fled to Bruges when Harald Harefoot became king of England, but when he died in 1040 Harthacnut was able to take over as king.
At this point, the prison governor and his staff fled to an unused part of the prison and secured themselves in there.
All my doubts and depressions of the evening before had fled, and I was single-heartedly delighted with the world and everything in it.
Of a sudden, however, a man broke from their company, took to his heels, and fled into the church.
Bassam Ayoubi, arrested Fouad Abrash in the town of Halba in Akkar, 24 hours after he fled the scene of the crime.
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Brun examines long-term displacements of Abkhazians who fled to Georgia in the early 1990s following claims of independence from Georgia.
They fled here over the last five years, making this country the world's war criminal capital.
One of the claimants of the English throne opposing William the Conqueror, Edgar Atheling, eventually fled to Scotland.
Diarmait fled Ireland and sought help from Henry II in regaining the kingship of Leinster.
The Normans fled to a military encampment at nearby Carrick, where they were besieged.
Most of Balliol's men were killed, though he himself managed to escape through a hole in the wall, and fled, naked and on horse, to Carlisle.
Robert Walpole managed to wind it down with minimal political and economic damage, although some losers fled to exile or committed suicide.
Adherbal fled to Rome for assistance, and initially Rome mediated a division of the country between the two brothers.
York and the Nevilles fled abroad, but the Nevilles returned to win the Battle of Northampton, where they captured Henry.
Virtually all the conspirators fled the city after Caesar's death in fear of retaliation.
After the soldiers manning the fort were forced to abandon it, they spiked its guns and fled themselves before reinforcements could arrive.
After he landed, James fled London, returned and finally left for France on 23 December.
After the humiliation of the Day of the Barricades, Henry III fled from Paris.
The Genoese traders fled, taking the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe, whence it spread north.
The Jacobites quickly turned and fled, first towards Elgin and then to Nairn.
The Kaiser, kings and other hereditary rulers all were removed from power and Wilhelm fled to exile in the Netherlands.
Between 1920 and 1924, 354,000 Hungarians fled former Hungarian territories attached to Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
The city's residents fled to the north, most of them dying during the journey, but the infection had been spread to the people of Asia Minor.
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
Warwick's contingent from the garrison of Calais under Andrew Trollope defected to the Lancastrians, and the Yorkist leaders fled.
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York returned to Ireland, and his eldest son, Edward, Earl of March, Salisbury and Warwick fled to Calais.
Many other West Side Boys fled and later surrendered to Jordanian peacekeepers.
An estimated 800,000 Kosovo Albanians fled and an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 were killed, according to The New York Times.
According to the Human Rights Watch, 200,000 Serbs and thousands of Roma fled from Kosovo during and after the war.
Queen Margaret and her son had fled to north Wales, parts of which were still in Lancastrian hands.
As the Yorkist forces fled they left behind King Henry, who was found unharmed, sitting quietly beneath a tree.
Important collectors, dealers, and Modernist artists, writers, and poets had fled Europe for New York and America.
Some time thereafter, Ericke and his family, including his young daughter Abilgail, fled to Ireland.
It was formed in 1710 by Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight of the Earls and the penal laws.
At Muhammad's urging, a band of persecuted Muslims had fled across the Red Sea into the Horn.
Mengistu fled the country and was granted asylum in Zimbabwe, where he still resides.
Mengistu and others who had fled the country were tried and sentenced in absentia.
Henry and Margaret, who were waiting in York with their son Edward, fled north when they heard the outcome.
He and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, fled from Doncaster to the coast and thence to Holland and exile in Burgundy.
Bruce took the hint, and he and a squire fled the English court during the night.
It was believed by all that they had been betrayed, and Warwick's army fled.
Wishart was a reformer who had fled Scotland in 1538 to escape punishment for heresy.
Many of Buckingham's defeated supporters and other disaffected nobles fled to join Henry Tudor in exile.
Knox fled to Kyle in Ayrshire, where he completed the major part of his magnum opus, History of the Reformation in Scotland.
While there, he feigned stomach cramps and in the confusion fled into a monastery.
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Richard's vanguard, commanded by Norfolk, attacked but struggled against Oxford's men, and some of Norfolk's troops fled the field.
The defence advocates seem to have presented no evidence and fled after the trial.
The duke abandoned his plans and fled to Wem, where he was betrayed by his servant and arrested by Richard's men.
After Dunmore's troops were overwhelmed by Patriots at Great Bridge, Dunmore fled to naval ships anchored off Norfolk.
The survivors of the failed uprisings fled to Brittany, where they openly supported Henry's claim to the throne.
He fled from the alleged wrath of the king of Strathclyde, Rhydderch Hael, after the slaying of Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio.
John Morton, a bishop of Flanders, learned of the scheme and warned the Tudors, who fled to France.
Northumberland and his men fled north on seeing the king's fate, and Norfolk was killed.
Many fled abroad, including the influential Tyndale, who was eventually executed and his body burned at Henry's behest.
After a number of unsuccessful engagements with Caesar's forces, he cut his losses and fled to Britain.
Cadwaladr fled to Ireland and hired a Norse fleet from Dublin, bringing the fleet to Abermenai to compel Owain to reinstate him.
According to legend, one of Owain's sons was Prince Madoc, who is popularly supposed to have fled across the Atlantic and colonised America.
Many of them fled, but the soldiers of the royal household gathered around Harold's body and fought to the end.
The remains of some of Montfort's soldiers who had fled the battlefield were found in the nearby village of Cleeve Prior.
Edward's regime collapsed and he fled into Wales, where he was captured in November.
Deserted by his men, he fled to his sworn brother, King Malcolm III of Scotland.
I fled as a man flies from dream to baleful dream of some cacodemoniacal night.
Several of the individuals suspected of involvement in the death, including Sir Thomas Gurney, Maltravers and William Ockley, later fled.
After the capture of Richmond in April 1865, the state capital was briefly moved to Lynchburg, while the Confederate leadership fled to Danville.
As well as the friendly fire, the barrage also caught German troops in the open as they fled from the wood.
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During this era, Lord Mansfield declared that a slave who fled from his master could not be taken by force in England, nor sold abroad.
President Ali Nasser Muhammad fled to the north and was later sentenced to death for treason.
Because of religious persecution during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent.
David's deserted Gerald, and having been obliged to leave Wales, he fled to Rome.
Out of fear of what Cerridwen would do to him, Gwion fled and eventually transformed into a piece of grain before being consumed by Cerridwen.
Many important artists fled to North America, and relative safety in the United States.
Frodo fled at this and went ahead, accompanied only by his gardener Samwise Gamgee.
The two sides had their geographical strongholds, such that minority elements were silenced or fled.
Muhammad ibn Ganiya, the Almoravid claimant, fled to Palma and established his capital there.
John Finch was impeached the following day, and he consequently fled to the Netherlands with Charles's permission on 21 December.
Charles was so unpopular that he could not raise an army to fight the invasion and instead fled to Burgundy.
Having displaced the Speaker, William Lenthall, from his chair, the king asked him where the MPs had fled.
Parliament quickly seized London, and Charles fled the capital for Hampton Court Palace on 10 January, moving two days later to Windsor Castle.
Ketil was eventually outlawed and fearing the bounty on his head fled to Iceland.
The British surprised the smaller and slower German squadron, which fled for home.
Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe.
Pompey and many of the Senate fled to the south, having little confidence in Pompey's newly raised troops.
In the initial aftermath of Charles's defeat, Queen Eadgifu and children had fled to England.
During the English Civil War, King Charles fled to the Isle of Wight, believing he would receive sympathy from the governor Robert Hammond.
The morale of the troops of the 55th Infantry Division further back was broken by the air attacks and French gunners had fled.
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At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Dieppe lost 3,000 of its Huguenot citizens, who fled abroad.
Although he was proclaimed King in Jersey, Charles was unable to secure the crown of England and consequently fled to France and exile.
He fled to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1776 and later to England 1779 and was employed by the Crown during this time.
The Yorkist leaders fled from England after the collapse of their army in the confrontation at Ludford Bridge.
Queen Margaret fled abroad with the young Prince Edward and many of their leading supporters.
Albany fled to France in 1479, accused of treason and breaking the alliance with England.
The Loyalists, led by Bishop Charles Inglis fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where they founded King's Collegiate School.
They had escaped from France and fled to the Netherlands to flee religious persecution in France.
The two whites with whom he fled were sentenced only to an additional year of their indenture, and three years' service to the colony.
Others went to refugee camps such as the Grand Contraband Camp near Fort Monroe or fled to northern cities.
James fled to France once more, departing from Kinsale, never to return to any of his former kingdoms.
The remaining Confederate units fled west after a defeat at Sayler's Creek.
Caratacus himself was defeated in the Battle of Caer Caradoc and fled to the Roman client tribe of the Brigantes who occupied the Pennines.
Astrid fled to her father's home in Oppland, then went on to Sweden where she thought she and Olaf would be safe.
A mob followed the young boy as he fled to his protector Queen Allogia, with the intent of killing him for his misdeed.
Louis Philippe was deposed in the revolutions of 1848, and fled to exile in England.
On the night of 20 June 1791 the royal family fled the Tuileries Palace dressed as servants, while their servants dressed as nobles.
Harold's sons, Godwin and Edmund, fled to Ireland and then invaded Devon, but were defeated by Brian of Brittany.
Henry, who had fled to France, took advantage of the opportunity and recommenced the fight.
These, seeing the boldness of our men, abandoned the fort and fled southwards to the shelter of a copse.
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Finally the shark was badly bitten and fled to the open sea, and the crocodile finally ruled the estuarine area that today is the city.
Joviality fled from the table, Shekhar studied his cards. Owad frowned at his. His foot was tapping on the concrete floor. More watchers came.
In 413 he led an invasion of Italy, lost to a subordinate of Constantius, and fled back to Africa where he was murdered by Constantius's agents.
In 572, Alboin was murdered in Verona in a plot led by his wife, Rosamund, who later fled to Ravenna.
When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it.
Bonaparte and his family fled to the French mainland in June 1793 because of the split with Paoli.
Many of the men fled across a river and dispersed themselves in the forests.
In the following year Caesar entered the country of the Eburones, and Ambiorix fled before him.
Gunderic fled to Baetica, where he was also proclaimed king of the Silingi Vandals.
Petty king Zyraxes escaped with his treasure and fled over the Danube into Scythia to seek aid from the Bastarnae.
Although the Huns successfully subdued many of the Goths, who joined their ranks, a group of Goths led by Fritigern fled across the Danube.
Decebalus fled into the mountains, but was cornered by pursuing Roman cavalry.
In the course of the night, 6000 of the Verbigeni fled from the camp out of fear of being massacred once they were defenceless.
The unpopular Louis XVIII fled to Belgium after realizing he had little political support.
He fled north to the Brigantes, but their queen, Cartimandua, was loyal to the Romans and handed him over in chains.
However, these attacked precipitately, while peace negotiations were going on, and precipitately fled.
In disarray, the Neapolitan army fled back to Naples, with the pursuing French close behind.
It must be noted that the Red Army had invaded the Second Polish Republic several hours before Polish president fled to Romania.
After his final defeat he fled to the territory of Queen Cartimandua, who captured him and handed him over to the Romans.
Many of the enemy fled and Martel's troops gathered the spoils of the camp.
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Carloman's widow Gerberga fled to Desiderius' court in Lombardy with her sons for protection.
She fled to England, and the Crown went to her infant son James VI, who was brought up as a Protestant.
In 875, after enduring eight decades of repeated Viking raids, the monks fled Lindisfarne, carrying the relics of Saint Cuthbert with them.
The last monarch involuntarily removed from power was James VII and II, who fled into exile in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution.
A major storm was unleashed, sinking most of the fleet and a large number of Vikings fled in their ships.
After Mary, Queen of Scots, fled Scotland to Northern England she stayed at Ripon on her journey.
Constantine's later propaganda describes how he fled the court in the night, before Galerius could change his mind.
Most Romans had fled the city, but some barricaded themselves upon the Capitoline Hill for a last stand.
After 1453 a number of Greek Byzantine scholars who fled to western Europe contributed to the Renaissance.
Constantius used his power to exile bishops adhering to the Nicene creed, especially St Athanasius of Alexandria, who fled to Rome.
When the leaders of the Irish Gaelic alliance fled Ireland in 1607, their lands were confiscated.
The Saxons were once again brought to heel, though Widukind fled to the Danes.
In the late 17th century many Huguenots fled to England, the Netherlands, Prussia, Switzerland, and the English and Dutch overseas colonies.
Alexios III fled from the capital, and Alexios Angelos was elevated to the throne as Alexios IV along with his blind father Isaac.
Alexander fled Macedon with his mother, dropping her off with her brother, King Alexander I of Epirus in Dodona, capital of the Molossians.
Marcos and his allies fled to Hawaii and Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino was recognized as president.
After repeated Viking raids, the monks fled Lindisfarne in AD 875, carrying St Cuthbert's relics with them.
Darius once more fled the field, and Alexander chased him as far as Arbela.
William de Marisco fled to Lundy where he lived as a virtual king.
Then she thought how, now, she would embrace again the faith she had abandoned, and walk again in the light from which, with Richard, she had so far fled.
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By then many of the artists and writers who had generated all this interest had fled the Village and North Beach, abandoning them to the tourists and fauxhemians.
Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled.
Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.
Pompey fled again, this time to Egypt, where he was murdered.
When this unknown creature entered the river, the Britons and their horses fled and the Roman army crossed over and entered Cassivellaunus' territory.
Commius maintained his loyalty through the events of 54 BC, but later began to conspire against the Romans, and fled to Britain, where he established himself as a king.
His son, Mandubracius, fled to the protection of Caesar in Gaul.
It was from Bosham in 1051 that Godwin, Sweyn and Tostig fled to Bruges and the court of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, a relative of Tostig's wife, Judith of Flanders.
Edwin might have fled England after an unsuccessful rebellion against his brother's rule, and his death probably helped put an end to Winchester's opposition.
After the Godwins fled the country, Edward expelled Spearhafoc, who fled with a large store of gold and gems which he had been given to make Edward a crown.
As a result of the Merciless Parliament, de Vere and Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk, who had fled abroad, were sentenced to death in their absence.
Edward and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, fled, but on their return, Clarence switched sides at the Battle of Barnet, leading to the death of the Neville brothers.
Threatened with treason charges and lacking support, York, Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, fled abroad.
Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
Mary escaped from Loch Leven in 1568 but after another defeat fled across the border into England, where she had once been assured of support from Elizabeth.
While the Parliament refused to depose James, they declared that James, having fled to France had effectively abdicated the throne, and that the throne was vacant.
When he landed the next day, at Brixham, James fled to France.
When Napoleon heard that Prussian troops had orders to capture him dead or alive, he fled to Rochefort, considering an escape to the United States.
Brown, who lived in Majorca, Spain at the time, was charged in June 2008 with fraud and money laundering and subsequently jumped bail and fled the country.
After the French king Louis XIV declared Protestantism illegal in 1685 in the Edict of Fontainebleau, an estimated 50,000 Protestant Huguenots fled to England.
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In December 1737, Wesley fled the colony and returned to England.
In 875 the Danes took the monastery of Lindisfarne and the monks fled, carrying with them St Cuthbert's body around various places including Melrose.
After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled from the violence to Cambridge, later forming the University of Cambridge.
He defeats many more than twenty knights with the aid of his foster mother the Lady of the Lake, only to discover that the Copper Knight has fled.
When in November 1640 the Long Parliament succeeded the Short, Hobbes felt that he was in disfavour due to the circulation of his treatise and fled to Paris.
Thomas Paine wrote the second part of Rights of Man on a desk in Thomas 'Clio' Rickman's house, with whom he was staying in 1792 before he fled to France.
These events led to an immediate downturn in the fortunes of the Tories, and Pope's friend, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, fled to France.
Many Khalkha nobles and folks fled to Inner Mongolia because of the war.
Following the passage of the Power of Imprisonment Act 1817, and fearing arrest for his arguably seditious writings, Cobbett fled to the United States.
When Fregoso was in due course himself toppled, he fled to the harbour, commandeered four galleys and launched himself on a whole new career as a pirate.
When the Communist Party eventually took full control of mainland China in 1949, even more skilled migrants fled across the open border for fear of persecution.
Nearly one million refugees had fled Kosovo, and part of KFOR's mandate was to protect the humanitarian missions, in addition to deterring violence.
The Godwins, having previously fled, threatened to invade England.
They fled first to Holland, and then later to America, to establish the English colony of Massachusetts in New England, which later became one of the original United States.
Those that fled to England were given support by the Church of England.
He arrived in Puerto Rico on June 15, 1598, but by November of that year Clifford and his men had fled the island due to fierce civilian resistance.
The Arawaks are believed to have fled to neighbouring islands.
After Matilda was pushed out of England into the County of Anjou, essentially failing in her legitimist attempt for the throne, many of her supporters in England fled also.
As a consequence, many civilians had fled to areas under his control.
At the end of the 1715 rebellion, a large number of Jacobites who had fled north from mainland Scotland sought refuge on Orkney and were helped on to safety in Sweden.
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The French fled the Plains of Abraham in a state of utter confusion while they were pursued by members of the Scottish Fraser regiment and other British forces.
Thousands of Hungarians were arrested, imprisoned and deported to the Soviet Union, and approximately 200,000 Hungarians fled Hungary in the chaos.
The teenager then fled to the mountains to join the mujahedeen.
German artist Max Beckmann and scores of others fled Europe for New York.
Almost the whole population, some 400,000 people, fled these areas.
She fled to the continent and appealed to the Pope for support.
Robert accompanied David into battle at Neville's Cross on 17 October 1346 but he and Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March escaped or fled the field and David was taken prisoner.
According to his own account, he burst into tears and fled to his room.
After an unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne, she fled southwards seeking the protection of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I of England.
When the Olive Branch was destroyed by an accidental fire, the survivors fled to Jamaica in the Hopeful Beginning, and landed in Port Royal harbour.
After war broke out, Dunmore issued a proclamation on November 7, 1775, promising freedom for slaves who fled their Patriot masters to fight for the Crown.
In 1560, during the political unrest accompanying the Scottish Reformation, the then chancellor, Archbishop James Beaton, a supporter of the Marian cause, fled to France.
Finally, another major influx of Scots into northern Ireland occurred in the late 1690s, when tens of thousands of people fled a famine in Scotland to come to Ulster.
In 1461, when the Ottomans crossed the Strait of Corinth, Palaeologus fled Patras for exile in Italy, bringing with him what was purported to be the skull of Saint Andrew.
Dafydd and Gruffudd fled to England where they were maintained by the king and carried out raids on Llywelyn's lands, increasing Llywelyn's resentment.
He killed many thousands before the invaders fled to Ireland.
Abandoning many of their belongings, the royal party fled by ship and landed at Scarborough, where Gaveston stayed while Edward and Isabella returned to York.
It was claimed in 1876 that it was not Lewis who stabbed Black, but another man, Ianto Parker, who fled to America following the incident in order to avoid prosecution.
President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi fled the capital to the southern city of Aden, former capital of South Yemen, and eventually evacuated to Saudi Arabia.
These were mostly, but not exclusively, members of the Baluba tribe and had fled the persecution of Munongo's mercenary affreux and their black rank-and-file.

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