7 sentences with 'retreat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word retreat and other words derived from it.
• « However, to avoid the appearance of a retreat, Alexander the Great insisted that his armies fight up the Indus River valley and then through the southern part of the ancient Persian Empire on their way back to Mesopotamia. »
• « The Ottomans then seized Safavid territory and forced Ismail to retreat to the Iranian plateau. »
• « As the first snowflakes began to fall, the French held out for another month, but by October Napoleon was forced to admit that he had to retreat when supplies began to run low. »
• « The French retreat was a horrible debacle. The Russians attacked weak points in the French line and ambushed them at river crossings, disease ravaged the ranks of the malnourished French troops and the weather steadily worsened. »
• « Also, German forces had advanced so rapidly into USSR territory that they often became bogged down in transit, with German supply lines stretched to the breaking point. Thus, just as had happened during Napoleon's retreat more than a hundred years earlier, the guerrillas were able to beach and kill the foreign invaders. »
• « Our little lakeside retreat had been in my family for more than 80 years. But when we moved more than 950 kilometres away, it became much less accessible, so we didn't go much. »