The Roman survivors are evacuated by a fleet to be destroyed soon afterwards, on their way back to Sicily.

Some survivors were resettled within the empire, while others were incorporated into the Roman army.

"; a reference to the scene in the movie Spartacus in which the survivors of Spartacus's army, defeated by Roman legions, are offered leniency by Crassus, if they will identify their leader.

* A Jewish diaspora begins as emperor Hadrian bars Jews from Jerusalem and has survivors of the massacre dispersed across the Roman Empire.

A few Roman survivors make it back to their winter quarters where they commit suicide that night.

The Roman army methodically pursued and surrounded the survivors at Mount Haemus where an epidemic affected the entrapped Goths.

Starting in the 19th century, various texts claim that the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus Africanus plowed over and sowed the city of Carthage with salt after defeating it in the Third Punic War ( 146 BC ), sacking it, and forcing the survivors into slavery.

* 332-Two young Roman Christians, Frumentius and Aedesius, are the sole survivors of a ship destroyed in the Red Sea due to tensions between Rome and Aksum.

Before the end of the battle, a dramatic event took place: 900 survivors, most of them Roman deserters, had found refuge in the temple of Eshmun, in the citadel of Byrsa, although it was already burning.

Many of these towns were survivors of earlier Etruscan and Roman towns which had existed within the Roman Empire.

However, the lack of coordination after the battle led to the escape of the Roman survivors, about 8, 000 men, to the north of the Ebro river.

* The indigenous population of Dacia decreased significantly following the Roman conquest, the Roman conquerors having executed Dacians for acts qualified as oath-breaking, while most of the survivors were sent to Britain and to the Eastern provinces of the Empire.

Czech burghers and Roman Catholic Germans turned on each other ; many were massacred, and most German survivors fled or were exiled to the Holy Roman Empire.

In 1997, the 60th anniversary of Operation Rügen, then German President Roman Herzog wrote to survivors of the raid apologizing on behalf of the German people and state.

The Roman Catholic priest John Baptiste Brouillet aided the survivors and helped bury the victims.

In 1997, the 60th anniversary of Operation Rügen, then German President Roman Herzog wrote to survivors apologizing on behalf of the German people and state for Germany's role in the Civil War in general.

With a ferocity celebrated centuries later in the Nibelungenlied, the Huns slaughtered many Burgundians on the middle Rhine, re-establishing the survivors as Roman allies, the first Kingdom of Burgundy.

One group of raiders was surprised and entrapped, and the Roman troops discovered amongst them several survivors of the defeat of Varus, who had been pressed into slavery forty years earlier.

The Roman town was destroyed at the beginning of 5th century, possibly by the Visigoths: the survivors rebuilt their homes on top of the hill, where today's Nocera still stands.

In the aftermath of the battle, Otto retreated to his castle of Harzburg and was soon overthrown as Holy Roman Emperor, and replaced by Frederick II.

In due course, the barbarians overran the Western Roman Empire: Its emperors retreated to Ravenna, and it diminished to nothing.

On the request of the Roman consul Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, sent to defend the Taurisci, they retreated, only to find themselves deceived and attacked at the Battle of Noreia, where they defeated the Romans.

Narseh retreated to Armenia to fight Galerius ' force, to Narseh's disadvantage ; the rugged Armenian terrain was favorable to Roman infantry, but unfavorable to Sassanid cavalry.

Al-Kamil retreated to the nearby fortress of al-Mansurah, but the crusaders remained in Damietta throughout 1219 and 1220, awaiting the arrival of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, while King John returned to Acre briefly to defend against al-Mu ' azzam, who was raiding the kingdom from Damascus in John's absence.

In the aftermath of the battle, Otto retreated to his castle of Harzburg and was soon overthrown as Holy Roman Emperor, and replaced by Frederick II.

An exception was in 217 BC, when a Carthaginian fleet of 70 quinqueremes was intercepted off the coast of Etruria by a Roman fleet of 120 quinqueremes and retreated without giving battle.

Remains of human habitation have been found from the prehistoric, Roman and Saxon eras, showing that humans retreated towards progressively higher ground over these periods.

While Fritigern asked Valens to allow the Thervingi to cross the northern Roman border and settle in Moesia or Thracia, with the Danube River and Roman frontier forts protecting them from the Huns, ( thus this was a form of asylum ), Athanaric and many of his followers retreated to Caucaland ( probably Transylvania ).

Meanwhile, the Roman withdrawal from lowland England resulted in conflict between Saxons and the Brythonic chieftains ( whose power retreated westward ).

Although the army had abandoned the fortress by 410 when the Romans retreated from Britannia, the Romano-British civilian settlement continued ( probably with some Roman veterans staying behind with their wives and children ) and its occupants probably continued to use the fortress and its defences as protection from raiders from the Irish Sea.

The entire Roman army retreated into the deserted Veii whereas most civilians ended at the Etruscan Caere.

They were met by the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla near Chaeronea and in the ensuing battle the Mithridatics were defeated and retreated to Chalkis.

It was a resounding Roman defeat with heavy losses, and yet some 10, 000 and more Romans, over 2. 5 legions, were victorious on their part of battlefield and retreated with honor to Placentia ( Piacenza ).

The Roman administration retreated from Dacia around 271, and according to this theory, the romanized Dacians stayed on, and have continuously lived in Dacia throughout the Dark Ages.

Although the Roman army retreated from Britain in the early 5th century, it is unlikely that the fort was ever completely abandoned, although its use continued on a much smaller scale.

Hasdrubal retreated without fighting the Roman army.

Correus and the Bellovaci retreated in the night to a stronger camp 10 miles away, using a line of fire to blind the Roman troops, leaving traps in their wake to impede Roman pursuit.

Other locations have also been suggested, some as far away as in Catalonia, indicating that it is not established that Charlemagne took any of the Roman roads when retreating, nor that he retreated directly from Pamplona.

According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Tiberius took a complete set of her works with him when he retreated to his resort on Capri.

Under barbarian pressure, the Roman Legions retreated from Dacia ( modern Romania ) in 271-275.

According to Romanian historians, Roman colonists and the Latinized Dacians retreated into the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania after the Roman Legions withdrew from the area.