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 ensuing fight, the defenders of Constantinople held out against the crusader counterattack of 9 April.

During the next few years, the Byzantine offensive slowed and no significant gains were made, though in 1009 an attempt by the Bulgarians to counterattack was defeated at the Battle of Kreta, which was fought to the east of Thessalonica.

During the Battle of Seven Pines he marched his men in the wrong direction down the wrong road, causing congestion and confusion with other Confederate units, diluting the effect of the massive Confederate counterattack against McClellan.

During the same period, a counterattack was launched by a new, third grouping ( the centrists ) led by President Hồ Chí Minh, Lê Ðức Thọ, and Foreign Minister Nguyễn Duy Trinh, who called for negotiations.

During the Battle of France, on 3 June 1940, he led the armoured counterattack against Germans in Abbeville.

During Kakashi Gaiden, a short flashback to Kakashi's childhood that divides Part I and II of the series, the Chidori is revealed to cause a tunnel vision effect because of the speeds at which the user moves, leaving them vulnerable to a counterattack.

During Operation Grenade on March 1, 1945 American forces which had entered Schiefbahn met a counterattack from a German Panzer unit.

During the Red Army counterattack under Mikhail Tukhachevsky, he headed the Polish Provisional Revolutionary Committee ( Tymczasowy Komitet Rewolucyjny Polski ) in Białystok in 1920, which planned to declare the Polish Soviet Socialist Republic.

During the Battle of Saipan, 36 Type 97s of the 9th Tank Regiment, commanded by Colonel Takashi Goto joined with Type 95s of the 136rd Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Yukimatsu Ogawa in an all-out counterattack against the US 6th Marine Regiment.

During the Amazon counterattack, he was stung by several gigantic Stygian Killer Hornets, native to the Amazon Nation.

During this time his Division or Panzerkorps engaged in the defense against the Soviet breakthrough at Stalingrad, and the attempt to relieve Stalingrad in late 1942, the defense against the Soviet breakthrough across the Dnieper, and the counterattack at Zhitomir in 1943, as well as the defense against the Soviet winter / spring offensive in western Ukraine in 1944.

During the Battle of Salamanca, his division played a key part by defeating French General Bertrand Clausel's counterattack.

During the final days of the Fifth Phase Campaign, the main body of the 180th Division was encircled during a UN counterattack, and after days of hard fighting, the division was fragmented, and the regiments fled in all directions.

During the sixth counterattack, the enemy, by using flamethrowers and taking advantage of the fog, succeeded in overrunning the position Capt.

During this counterattack, the Native Americans also ransacked the Sandy Creek Settlement, forcing its abandonment.

During a violent enemy counterattack in the KRINKELT-ROCHERATH area, BELGIUM, personnel inexperienced in combat such as cooks, clerks and drivers, manned deadlined tanks and with superb courage met the headlong plunge of the enemy and inflicted severe casualties upon him, with utter disregard for their personal safety, the officers and men of these three gallant companies faced devastating hostile tank, anti-tank and self-propelled artillery fire and fought on tenaciously against overwhelming enemy forces.

During a surprise Union counterattack against his brigade, many of his men fled and Benning ran off to Longstreet to report the calamity.

During the Battle of Troina, from 31 July 1943 to 6 August 1943, brigade units, including the 26th Infantry Regiment were instrumental in capturing and then defending Troina from German counterattack.