7 sentences with 'fled'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fled and other words derived from it.
• « The inhabitants of Israel fled to Judah or were absorbed into the Assyrian Empire, losing their cultural identity in the process. »
• « Darius III fled east but was assassinated by Persian nobles, who hoped to retain their own independence (this didn't work - Alexander the Great thoroughly hunted down the assassins over the next few years). »
• « Spartacus set up a war camp on the slopes of the volcano Vesuvius, to which thousands of slaves fled, culminating in an "army" of about 70,000. »
• « When Caesar approached, Pompey fled to Greece, but Caesar followed and defeated his forces in battle in 48 BC. »
• « Many of the now unemployed scholars fled to Persia, where they were taken in by the Sassanid rulers. »
• « Bohemia itself was conquered by Catholic forces and over 100,000 Protestants fled; during the course of the war Bohemia lost 50% of its population. »
• « Britain came to have the largest settler population among Europeans in North America in the 17th century because English religious dissenters, the Puritans, fled persecution by the Anglican state and began settling by the thousands in Massachusetts in the 1620s (this was during the period under James I and Charles I before the English Civil War). »