5 sentences with 'evacuated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word evacuated and other words derived from it.
• « A few months earlier, in April, after 611 years of dormancy, the Pinatubo volcano in the northern Philippines woke up. Hundreds were killed; 100,000 inhabitants and 14,500 soldiers were evacuated from the US base Clark. »
• « They soon realised that they were in an untenable position and had to withdraw from Boston. On 17 March 1776, the British evacuated their troops to Halifax, Nova Scotia, ending the nearly year-long siege. »
• « Britain's effort to isolate New England in 1777 failed. In June 1778, the British occupation force in Philadelphia evacuated and returned to New York City to better defend that city, and the British then turned their attention to the southern colonies. »
• « Due to this factor, the British and Commonwealth forces had to retreat to Crete and Egypt by the 6th of April. The last New Zealand troops had evacuated Greece by the 25th of April, having sustained losses of 291 men killed, 387 seriously wounded, and 1,826 men captured in this campaign. »
• « Since most New Zealand 2nd Division troops had evacuated to Crete, they were very much involved in the defence of Crete against German soldiers in May 1941. »