The Confederates were detained at Amelia Court House, awaiting delayed food supplies, and were badly cut up at Five Forks and Sayler's Creek, with their only avenue of escape now cut off by Sheridan and George A. Custer.
Deaths and injuries typically arise if escape routes are cut off, or as small explosions occur through interaction with water, vegetation or fuel.
If it appears to her that her escape route is cut off she may panic.
Then they symbolically cut off escape by tossing the keys into the wine-dark Tiber below.
The militants appear to have no escape route; they are cut off by surrounding troops and army helicopters overhead.
American military officials said the offensive had cut off escape routes of the suspected Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
"The best backup officers cut off escape routes," said a retired police chief who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want to appear to be critical or insensitive after an officer's death.
He said seven battalions of Pakistani soldiers -- several thousand troops in all -- have been patrolling the border region, with assistance from American reconnaissance aircraft and drones, trying to cut off escape routes.
Analysts in Russia, one of Syria's staunchest allies, say that as rebels try to encircle Damascus and cut off escape routes to the coast, the mood in the palace is one of panic, evinced by the erratic use of weapons: Scud missiles better used against an army than an insurgency, naval mines dropped from the air instead of laid at sea.
Thousands of Pakistani soldiers have been deployed on the mountains, which soar to 15,000 feet, and in valleys along the border in a bid to cut off escape routes for Mr. bin Laden and his fighters, Pakistani military officials said on Tuesday.
