Fearing defeat, the rebels started taking hostages of the local white population in areas under their control.

Fearing a repeat of Missouri and Illinois, they prepared to defend themselves, determined to torch their own homes in the case that they were invaded.

Fearing an eruption of the volcano, many of the 20, 000 inhabitants leave their homes in a panicked flight.

Fearing that stronger measures were needed to quell the unrest, Santa Anna ordered his brother-in-law, General Martín Perfecto de Cos to " repress with strong arm all those who, forgetting their duties to the nation which has adopted them as her children, are pushing forward with a desire to live at their own option without subjection to the laws ".

Fearing financial and economic losses should a treasure fleet be captured, the Spanish reduced the danger by increasing the number of their convoys and thereby reducing their size and the value of their cargoes.

Fearing for their lives, numerous Athenians fled to Thebes.

Fearing to endanger his good relations with the powerful Dutch stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, his assistance to Spain limited itself to allowing Habsburg troops on their way to Dunkirk to employ neutral English shipping ; in 1636 and 1637 he made some halfhearted attempts to extort North Sea herring rights from Dutch fishermen until intervention by the Dutch navy made an end to such practices.

Fearing the Dutch would attempt to re-establish their authority over Indonesia, the new Republican Government and its leaders moved quickly to strengthen the fledgling administration.

Fearing that Romanos would allow Constantine VII to succeed him instead of them, his younger sons Stephen and Constantine arrested their father in December 944, carried him off to the Prince's Islands and compelled him to become a monk.

Fearing for their lives, the colonists persuaded Governor White to return to England to explain the colony's desperate situation and ask for help.

Fearing for their lives, the Spartan garrison surrender and are evacuated.

Fearing for his reputation after losing a fight to Wendy Testaburger in the season 12 ( 2008 ) episode " Breast Cancer Show Ever ", Cartman receives several assurances from numerous classmates that their opinion of him is already at the point where it cannot get any lower.

Fearing that the election would be taken out of their hands, they settled on a compromise candidate, Grosseteste.

Fearing that the Americans, with the artillery out of the way, would move the rest of their troops across the river, Brock ordered an immediate attack on their position.

Fearing for their safety, the black students left town.

Fearing that this important stronghold might ultimately fall into the hands of the enemy, and enable them to make good their hold on the district, Sir Eustace dismantled the fortress, a service and sacrifice for which he was liberally rewarded by Robert Bruce.

Fearing the Germans would destroy Paris if attacked by a frontal assault, General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered his forces to cease their advance and reconnoitre the situation.

Fearing arrest the archbishop fled to Canterbury, and entered upon a violent war of words with the king, and by his firm conduct led to the establishment of the principle that peers were only to be tried in full parliament before their own order ( en pleyn parlement et devant les piers ).

Fearing the retribution that the victorious Spartans might take on them, the Athenians resolved to hold out from the siege, but their cause was hopeless.

Fearing for their lives, the left wing ministers fled to Khang Khay, capital of the Pathet Lao zone.

Fearing the spread of what they viewed as potentially revolutionary ideas, the British government prosecuted printers and booksellers who tried to publish and distribute it.

Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.

Fearing that the Dauphin would die, a double baptism was performed, in which both the Dauphin and the Duke of Anjou were baptised.

Fearing that the actor will recognize her, she puts on a disguise that includes a putty nose, which catches on fire when she lights a cigarette.

Fearing that Hitler was escaping in the plane, troops of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, which was fighting its way through the Tiergarten from the north, tried to shoot the Arado down but failed, and the plane took off successfully.

Fearing Communism, he joined the pacifists ' camp and praised the Munich Agreement in 1938, which the President of the Council Édouard Daladier had signed without any illusions.

Fearing that Hitler was escaping in the plane, troops of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, which was fighting its way through the Tiergarten from the north, tried to shoot the Arado down.

Fearing for the safety of the riders, the stewards red-flagged the race, which was declared completed, and full World Championship points were given.

Fearing that he would meet the same fate of the Earl of Strafford, Tuchet manage to escape with the help of a friend and fled south into the Wicklow Mountains, and from there made his way to the town of Kilkenny, which had sided with the Irish insurgency.

Fearing a rout, Yorkist soldiers are reported to have kissed the ground beneath them, supposing that this would be the ground on which they would meet their deaths.

Fearing for Kyoto's loss in glory and interest by her people, the city government and the Kyoto Prefectural Government commemorated the 1100th anniversary of the founding of Heian-kyō ( 平安京 ) which was the former name of Kyoto, in 794 by ( 737-806 ).

Fearing a rebellion, including from that of the Muslim population which was outraged by the injustice done to the Prince, his sons and his close friend, ordered for the bodies to be thrown into the Bosporus.

Fearing a hostile Turkish reaction, three Greek ministers resigned ( Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, in charge of the attempt to hide Öcalan at the Greek Ambassador's residence in Kenya and to find him asylum ; Interior Minister Alekos Papadopoulos, in charge of the Greek Intelligence Service involved in the operation ; and Public Order Minister Philippos Petsalnikos, in charge of the Greek security forces which failed to stop the smuggling of Öcalan into Greece in January 1999 ).

Fearing isolation, people would not feel free to speak up if they feel they hold dissenting views, which means people restrict themselves to having conversation with like-minded individuals, or have no conversation whatsoever.

Fearing that the arsenal, which contained large stocks of arms and ammunition, would fall intact into rebel hands, the nine British Ordnance officers there had opened fire on the sepoys, including the men of their own guard.

Fearing he had offended the dead woman, the Laird of the castle had the skeleton exhumed and replaced behind the bedroom wall, at which point the haunting ceased.

Fearing Missouri's tilt to the South, William S. Harney, the Federal commander in Missouri struck the Price-Harney Truce on May 12, 1861, which affirmed Missouri's neutrality in the conflict.

Fearing for his family, Leopold relocated the court to the Château de Lunéville, which Leopold rebuilt the castle as the " Versailles of Lorraine ".

Fearing a boycott of the station due to ongoing disputes over bus service in Anacostia ( see below ), Metro sent large numbers of extra station managers and supervisors into the Anacostia station on the first workday it was open to help commuters decide whether to take rail or bus, and which bus routes to take.

Fearing that the former president's government along with the Civilist Parliament would not recognise his victory, he launched a successful military coup, which led Leguía to succeed Pardo as an interim president.

The assassin returns and trips it, setting off an explosion, which wounds him in the abdomen. Fearing that his protégé might lose, the Master sends a hypnotised guard to kill the Doctor's physical form.

Fearing a Brazilian invasion of Argentine territory, in mid 1826, President Rivadavia appointed Alvear as commander in chief of the Argentine army, which was in mutiny.