Sentence examples similar to ordered retreat from inspiring English sources

Officer losses were so numerous that none were left to order retreat.

Three days later he ordered a retreat to Chattanooga.

When Wallace saw that Gordon's troops had pushed Ricketts back, he ordered a retreat.

Vollick ordered a retreat, and the group ran through the alleys toward the base.

The army has been ordered to retreat to the town, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

He ordered a retreat from the bridge just as the blocking phalanx of Alabama troopers stepped aside.

It was unclear whether this was an ordered police retreat or a spontaneous, and disorganized, reaction to the situation.

A ceasefire to collect the wounded bought some time until Burnside ordered a retreat under the cover of bad weather and darkness on Dec. 15.

Kleist was therefore ordered to retreat, while his northern flank of 600 miles was still protected by the desperate resistance of the encircled Paulus.

On November 4 Rommel ordered a retreat, and by November 6 the British had wound up the second battle and driven the Germans westward from Egypt back into Libya.

The marines were ordered to retreat.