During his retreat, the emperor was surrounded and worn down by the Pechenegs, who forced him to sign a truce and pay protection money.

During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

During the second-dessert, the noble family would retreat in separate private quarters for an intimate part of the meal without servants.

* 1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.

During times of Portuguese colonization, Moors were persecuted, and many forced to retreat to the central highlands and the eastern coast.

During the period of Ngawang Namgyal's supposed retreat, appointments of officials were issued in his name, and food was left in front of his locked door.

During the Battle of Wuzhang Plains, he falls sick and sends secret orders for his army to retreat.

During the filming of a scene in which a bridge was blown up, Eastwood urged Wallach to retreat to a hilltop.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Mazrui and Omani Arabs reclaimed much of the Indian Ocean trade, forcing the Portuguese to retreat south.

During Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in 1812, more French soldiers died of typhus than were killed by the Russians.

During the retreat, the nineteen-year-old king died in a marsh.

During the retreat from Forts Washington and Lee, he dawdled with his army, and intensified a letter campaign to convince various Congress members that he should replace Washington as Commander-in-Chief.

During this retreat the army had to fight its way across the Somme at the ford of Blanchetaque against a French army led by Hugh de Châtillon, who was captured and sold to Edward III.

During the retreat, membership in the party fell from 300, 000 to around 40, 000.

During the retreat, approximately 200, 000 Serbs perished in the Albanian mountains and thousands more perished once they arrived on the Greek island of Corfu.

During his leadership of the Russian revolution of 1905, Trotsky argued that once it became clear that the Tsar's army would not come out in support of the workers, it was necessary to retreat before the armed might of the state in as good an order as possible.

During World War I, the city was one of the focal points of Austro-Hungarian / German Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive of 1915, a military operation that changed the situation in the Eastern Front and resulted in major retreat of opposing Russian forces.

During their retreat from Quebec, the Americans carefully took or destroyed all ships on Lake Champlain that might prove useful to the British.

During the Holocene glacial retreat the sand dunes, which had been deposited in their current location by the vast continental glaciers, were exposed and grasses eventually took over.

During the 1970s, the castle was rented out as a honeymoon retreat.

During their retreat, the Confederates destroyed bridges across the Barren River, the railroad depot and other important buildings.

During the post-Civil War years, President Ulysses S. Grant stayed at a summer retreat known as the Friendship House located in Cottage City.

During the Gettysburg Campaign in the American Civil War, the Battle of Fairfield played an important role in securing the Fairfield pass and the Hagerstown Road, enabling Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to retreat through Fairfield towards the Potomac River.

During the American retreat, Lafayette rallied the troops, allowing a more orderly retreat before being treated for his wound.

During the mid-1950s Reitsch was interviewed on film and talked about her wartime flight tests of the Fa 61, Me 262, and Me 163.

During this period the Samanid state became highly unstable, with shifting internal political tides as various factions vied for control, the chief among them being Abu ' l-Qasim Simjuri, Fa ' iq, Abu Ali, the General Behtuzun as well as the neighbouring Buyids and Qarakhanids.

During the 1890s, the British explorer, Laurence Waddell, while exploring the ruins of Patliputra, identified Agam Kuan as the legendary well built by Ashoka for torturing people, a practice reported by Chinese travellers ( most probably Fa Hien ) of the 5th and 7th centuries A. D.

During these campaigns, Lysander attempted to manipulate Agesilaus into ceding his authority.

During the 1573 Polish election, Albert Frederick attempted to gain acceptance to the Polish senate but was opposed by the powerful Jan Zamoyski ( later Grand Hetman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland ) who feared the influence of Protestants in the Polish legislative body.

During this era, Chinese scholars attempted to incorporate Western philosophical ideologies such as democracy, Marxism, socialism, liberalism, republicanism, and nationalism into Chinese philosophy.

During the First World War Prime Minister Robert Borden attempted to form a coalition with the opposition Liberals to broaden support for controversial conscription legislation.

During the first millennium BCE in India, many texts were composed which attempted to codify aspects of daily life.

During Hindu marriage ceremonies the following slokas are uttered by the grooms but, these days, their import little understood or ever attempted to understand.

During this period several rulers attempted to unite the various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, an effort that led to the emergence of the Kingdom of England by the 10th century.

During the later part of the 18th century, the Commonwealth attempted fundamental internal reforms.

During the ceasefire, Etzel attempted to bring in a private arms shipment aboard a ship called " Altalena ".

During the winter of 1779, Simcoe attempted to capture George Washington, but decided that his men would not shoot the future president.

During the Suez crisis, Nehru's right hand man, Menon attempted to persuade a recalcitrant Gamal Nasser to compromise with the West, and was instrumental in moving Western powers towards an awareness that Nasser might prove willing to compromise.

During the summer of 1848, Stuart attempted to enlist in the U. S. Army, but was rejected as underaged.

During John's early years, Henry attempted to resolve the question of his succession.

During Kesselring's time as CS, 1936 – 1937, a power struggle developed between the two as Udet attempted to extend his own power within the Luftwaffe.

During Secret War, Fury and a number of superheroes invaded Latveria without permission of the US Government and attempted to assassinate von Bardas.

During this resurgence in the United Kingdom, Neo-druidism and various Western occult groups emerged, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis, who attempted to syncretize " exotic " elements like Egyptian cosmology and Kabbalah into their belief systems, although not necessarily for purely religious purposes.

During his reign, Otto II attempted to annex the whole of Italy into the Empire, bringing him into conflict with the Byzantine Empire and with the Saracens of the Fatimid Caliphate.

During her administration, Moscoso attempted to strengthen social programs, especially for child and youth development, protection, and general welfare.

During the existence of the Russian SFSR ( 1918-1991 ) and the Soviet Union ( 1922-1991 ), the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) attempted to ideologically and politically control the writing of both academic and popular history.

During and between tours, Dylan and the Hawks attempted several recording sessions, but with less than satisfying results.

During the battle, Grant attempted to break through Lee's line of defense at the Mule Shoe, which resulted in one of the most violent assaults during the Civil War, known as The Battle of the Bloody Angle.

During the 1920s, several inventors attempted devices that were intended to control the current in solid state diodes and convert them into triodes.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, Archbishop Matthew Parker saw the Conquest as having corrupted a purer English Church, which Parker attempted to restore.

During his time in Italy, the Emperor and the Pope attempted to reform the Church.

During World War II, the Nazis attempted to establish a puppet Belarusian government, Belarusian Central Rada, with the symbolics similar to BNR.