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Americans and retreated
The defeated Americans retreated to Chester where most of them arrived at midnight, with stragglers arriving until morning.
Many Native Americans were forcibly exiled to Creek lands west of the Mississippi ; others retreated into the Everglades.
While many British soldiers were killed from friendly fire, the Americans broke off and retreated from the field.
" Most of the Hessians retreated into an orchard, with the Americans in close pursuit.
While the Americans held the field of battle, they retreated because of the heavy casualties they suffered, including the mortal wounding of their leader, General Nicholas Herkimer.
" When the embassy guards brandished firearms, the protesters retreated, one telling the Americans, " We don't mean any harm.
After an intense skirmish, the Americans retreated to Buffalo, New York.
Because Sheaffe could not know where the Americans would land, Forsyth's riflemen were opposed only by some of the Indians led by Indian Agent James Givins, who were outflanked and retreated into the woods after a stiff resistance.
Drummond was later to claim from this that the Americans had retreated in disorder.
The American Army meanwhile retreated in great confusion to their boats and crossed to the south ( American ) bank of the river, although the British did not stand down from battle stations for some time, wary of the Americans renewing the attack.
When the Americans retreated, they were accompanied by a number of their supporters ; those who remained behind were subjected to a variety of punishments after the British re-established control over the province.
This Pélissier did until the Americans retreated in May 1776, at which time he also fled, eventually returning to France.
After further fighting, the Americans retreated.
The regiment took part in further action that year, at the Battle of Germantown and the Battle of White Marsh, where they fought the Americans who had retreated from the fighting at Germantown.
The Americans turned and retreated, leaving behind their field guns and ammunition wagons.
The Americans then rowed back to their ships and retreated.
They later watched from a distance as the Americans returned to their camp after daybreak, burned their provisions and tents and retreated toward Forty Mile Creek ( present day Grimsby, Ontario ).
The survivors retreated to their bases on northern and southern Bougainville, and the Americans left them to " wither on the vine " for the remainder of the war.
The earlier tradition retreated to the inland rural South, where it resisted efforts at conversion, surviving in the form of ( for example ) Sacred Harp music, a genre that in modern times has actually grown in popularity as Americans in all regions rediscover the vigor of pre-Lowell Mason American sacred music.
The Maraini family retreated to Italy after the Americans occupied Japan.
When the British retreated from the city, they burned Fort McKay rather than give it back to the Americans.
The Americans in all 13 colonies protested strongly and the British retreated part way, but insisted on the right of Parliament to tax the colonies.
At around 2: 30 am, the Americans and a few of the Cambodian soldiers retreated to the district headquarters, where other local troops were holding out.
The Californios retreated, and the Americans pursued.

Americans and north
Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.
In 1943, the Americans established a radio locating station named Atlantic City in the north to try to locate German radio bases in Greenland.
Following a frenetic shipbuilding race through the Spring and Summer of 1776 by the British at the north end of the lake and the Americans at the south end, they fought a significant naval engagement on October 11 at the Battle of Valcour Island.
At the same time, African Americans were rapidly moving north for better jobs and educational opportunities than were available to them in the segregated South.
* November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Dak To ( located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border ), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides ( the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22 ).
* September 10 – John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried, 2 African American slaves and 2 Native Americans leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern, and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River ( this event has also been dated September 12, 1711 ).
For years, she took in relatives and boarders, offering a safe place for black Americans seeking a better life in the north.
From 1910-1940, tens of thousands of African Americans migrated north from Alabama in the Great Migration to seek jobs, education for their children, and freedom from lynching in northern cities, such as St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.
Although Charles Dickens had ridiculed positive depictions of Native Americans as portrayals of so-called " noble " savages, he made an exception ( at least initially ) in the case of the Inuit, whom he called “ loving children of the north ”, “ forever happy with their lot ,” “ whether they are hungry or full ”, and “ gentle loving savages ”, who, despite a tendency to steal, have a “ quiet, amiable character ” (" Our Phantom Ship on an Antediluvian Cruise ", Household Words, April 16, 1851 ).
From 1910 to 1970, African Americans sought better lives by migrating north and west.
They were among the first Pacific peoples north of California to come into contact with Europeans, as the Spanish, Americans and British attempted to secure control of Pacific Northwest and the trade in otter pelts, with Nootka Sound becoming a focus of these rivalries.
Around this time, as the English began to colonize Nyack and Tappan, the Native Americans began to leave Rockland in search of undisturbed land further north.
The mainland territory north of the 49th parallel remained unincorporated until 1858, when a mass influx of Americans and others during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush forced the hand of Colony of Vancouver Island's Governor James Douglas, who declared the mainland a Crown Colony, although official ratification of his unilateral action was several months in coming.
They contracted with the Lenape Native Americans for land of Old Cape Henlopen north to Sankikans ( Trenton Falls ), and inland as far as they desired.
Settlers from Philadelphia moved north into present-day Warren County after colonists purchased land from the Native Americans.
The Bullskin Trail ( once a major pathway for Native Americans ) runs north and south through the county along State Route 133, and was also used by frontiersmen Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone on hunting and warfare expeditions.
To seek better opportunities and escape the oppression of segregation, underfunded education, and disfranchisement, thousands of African Americans left Red River and other rural parishes in the Great Migration north and west.
Since the 1980s, and much like Manhattan's Little Italy, due to a decrease in immigration from Italy and gentrification, the neighborhood has seen its native Italian American population rapidly shrink, while neighboring Chinatown has been rapidly expanding north into the neighborhood east of Broadway and along Stockton Street causing a major demographic shift to a mix of mostly Chinese and young professional population, although some, albeit very few, Italian Americans remain.
Semialachee got its name indirectly from the union of " Seminole " and " Apalachee ", two primary groups of Native Americans in the United States from the north Florida region.
Prior to the arrival of European settlers in North America, Native American settlements appear to have been limited to the area north of the Indian River, north of what is now Bethany Beach ; even after Europeans pushed the Native Americans — mostly Nanticokes -- out of their coastal settlements in the mid-17th century, the Native Americans moved west to settle around Oak Orchard, Delaware, and in the Millsboro, Delaware, area rather than south toward what would become Bethany Beach.
It is now home to mostly Jamaicans, West Indians and African Americans, but it still has a sizeable white, Jewish, and Hispanic population in the Northwest section and in the Inverrary neighborhood, located north of Oakland Park Boulevard and east of University Drive ).

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