Because the devastated countryside contained no supplies for the Romans, they were soon compelled to retreat.
The Swabian tribes, however, moved steadily through central and southern Germany, and the Celts were compelled to retreat to Gaul.
Although gaining some ground, the Federals were unable to drive the Confederate army into the Potomac, but Lee was compelled to retreat back into Virginia.
Though he had a wise wife and a good family, periodically throughout his life he was compelled to retreat from his work to nurse his melancholia.
[n11] But in Flast, the Court faced a different sort of constitutional claim, and found itself compelled to retreat from the general assertion in Frothingham that taxpayers have no interest in the disposition of their tax payments.
The French were repulsed from Valencia, and General Pierre Dupont, who had advanced into Andalusia, was compelled to retreat and ultimately to capitulate with all his army at Bailén (July 23).
His victory at the Battle of Talavera (July 27 28, 1809) was short-lived, nevertheless, and he was compelled to retreat to central Portugal, where he fortified himself within the country around Lisbon, now again under British rule.
His latest pronouncement comes at a time when the Obama administration might be compelled to retreat on its pledge to bring the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks to trial in a Manhattan courtroom, which has run into intense opposition.
With the fall of Fort Henry 10 days earlier, the South was compelled to retreat along a wide front, and Grant, whose first and middle names were transformed to the nickname "Unconditional Surrender," came to the favourable attention of Union President Abraham Lincoln.
There the legions were compelled to retreat from lack of water and with difficulty recrossed the Red Sea.
The Federals would be in rear of McLaws on the Maryland Heights and he might be compelled to retreat quickly to escape capture.
