Artifacts, records and stratigraphy suggest Broo's inhabitants successfully resisted the 16th century sand incursion, but were driven from their homes by the early 18th century.
In the southern Sudan the Mahdists had scored some initial successes but were driven from the upper Nile in 1897 by the forces of the Congo Free State of Leopold II of Belgium.
Dodgers starter held the Braves scoreless in the first inning, but was driven from the game in the second.
After the outbreak of the civil war of 1341 1347, he tried to surrender Thessalonica to his old friend John Kantakouzenos, but was driven from the city by the Zealots of Thessalonica.
But in Katie Woodencloak, she is driven from home by her stepmother's persecutions and must take service in a kitchen elsewhere, and in Tattercoats, she is refused permission to go to the ball by her grandfather.
That's what God intended for me to do, but we were driven from our land by criminals, and had no option but to fight.
It seemed as if Lilly had settled down, blanking the Yankees in the fifth, but he was driven from the game in the sixth.
The king's son Osorkon was appointed high priest, and he achieved some semblance of order during his visits to Thebes, but he was driven from the post several times.
Oliver Cromwell may have been one of the biggest killjoys in British history, but having been driven from the theatres, musicians sought refuge in the alehouse, whose backroom sessions planted the seed for the first public subscription concerts.
