Sentence examples for ordered to retreat from inspiring English sources

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

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

At 9 p.m., after about two hours of battle, a military spokesman, Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, said soldiers had been ordered to retreat while the government sought to negotiate with the Red Shirts.

When their commander yelled at them to get back in formation, the Texans assumed the whole Union line was being ordered to retreat, and with a rebel yell charged forward.

Only the remilitarization of the Rhineland offered a clear pretext for British and French intervention, and we now know that the token German force in the Rhineland had been ordered to retreat if such intervention occurred.

The Japanese soldiers had been ordered to retreat into the mountains, killing all but a handful of their prisoners, but after Hiroshima the Japanese emperor sent out orders that they should surrender.

The order to retreat could not come quickly enough.

On December 31 , 1902 more than four hundred and eighty miles from the Pole, Scott gave the order to retreat.

The Independent learned that as of midday yesterday perhaps 60 Ukrainian soldiers remained encircled in Chornukhine, awaiting orders to retreat.

Was it yesterday, when I sent Platov the order to retreat, or was it the evening before, when I dozed off and told Bennigsen to give the orders?

There a small band of Mexico's sons the "Niños Héroes" ("Boy Heroes")—defended their military academy to the death rather than follow the order to retreat.