According to, the attackers retreated after realizing that they would have to become rebels against the state and against their own lord.

After the escape of Sir Marmaduke Tweng, an English knight from Yorkshire, de Warenne ordered the bridge's destruction and retreated towards Berwick, leaving the garrison at Stirling Castle isolated and abandoning the Lowlands to the rebels.

York Herald lacked the forces to arrest the rebels and retreated into Norwich with the Mayor.

It was conveyed that the rebels had retreated back to the safety of the high ground overlooking the city.

The rebels retreated through the city, setting fire to houses as they went in an attempt to slow the Royal army's advance.

The rebels retreated to nearby Couch's Fort to gather reinforcements.

The French corps of rebels on the left under the command of Condé retreated in good order.

The next day, at about ten in the evening a battle broke out on London Bridge and lasted until eight the next morning, when the rebels retreated with heavy casualties.

The Nubian state had been completely subjugated by Thutmose I, but some rebels from Khenthennofer rose up, and the Egyptian colonists retreated into a fortress built by Thutmose I.

In 1680, the provinces of Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Sichuan, previously captured by the rebels, had been recovered by the Qing government and Wu Shifan retreated back to Kunming in October.

The Uyghurs retreated from Qos-Qulaq but were defeated by Zhao Hui and Fu De at the Battle of Arcul ( Altishar ) on September 1, 1759, the rebels were again defeated at the Battle of Yesil Kol Nor.

The Spanish militia, however, surprised the group with strong resistance, causing great confusion among the armed rebels who, led by Manuel Rojas, retreated back to Lares.

On January 11, 1838, the rebels were forced from the island and retreated across the river into the United States.

When Fitzgibbon advanced his infantry, both parties of rebels abandoned their posts and retreated in disarray to the tavern, causing those assembled there to panic and flee.

The rebels retreated to their villages, except those in Kozara and Motajica who continued, and offered strong resistance until their defeat in mid-October, after extensive looting and burning of villages by the Ottomans.

Some of Lawrence's sepoys and Indian artillerymen defected to the rebels, and his exhausted British soldiers retreated in disorder.

He diverted his force to Agra, to find the rebels had apparently retreated.

After the bombardment, the infantry and militia were sent in, as well as the dragoons fighting on foot, the United States force captured the most of the pueblo so the rebels retreated and sought refuge in the chapel, the heart of the fortified pueblo.

Near Dumbarton he encamped in an advantageous position in the face of the royal troops ; but his proposal to fight was overruled, and the rebels retreated without any engagement towards Glasgow.

The local Filipino soldiers under the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary units and the local Rizaleño guerrilla resistance fighters under the Colonel Marking's Guerrillas and the Hunters ROTC Guerrillas saluted by all decisive successfully victories after the invasion and they captured in the municipal town of Jalajala and finally the surrendered and retreated Japanese Imperial forces and the Makapili collaborating rebels by the Filipino military forces in the town after the war.

The rebels retreated to the coastal regions, where they made one more stand but were decisively defeated.

Step by step, however, they retreated bravely, and Rupert, who had returned from his charge, sought in vain to collect his scattered troopers, so as to fall again on the rebels.

Many of John's military household joined the rebels, particularly amongst those that John had appointed to administrative roles across England ; their local links and loyalties outweighed their personal loyalty to John.

Another significant arrival around this time was a group of puritan Miknasa Berber rebels from Ifriqiya, who went on to establish the settlement of Sijilmassa ( in southeast Morocco ) and open trade across the Sahara desert with the gold-producing Ghana Empire of west Africa.

Napoleon hoped in hiring Haussmann that Paris could be moulded into a city with safer streets, better housing, more sanitary, hospitable, shopper-friendly communities, better traffic flow, and, last but not least, streets too broad for rebels to build barricades across them and where coherent battalions and artillery could circulate easily if need be.

Since March 2002 UPDF has been granted permission to carry out operating against LRA bases across the border in the Sudan, and these raids, collectively known as Operation Iron Fist, have resulted in the repatriation of many abducted children being held by the rebels as child soldiers or sex slaves.

Seeing things going the rebels ' way, Sheffield took command of a body of cavalry and charged the rebels across the cathedral precinct, past St Martin at Place Church and into Bishopsgate Street.

Ptolemy III's navy, perhaps with the aid of rebels in the cities, advances against Seleucus II's forces as far as Thrace, across the Hellespont, and also captures some islands off the Anatolian coast.

The rebellion, planned in Conkey's Tavern in town, spread across central Massachusetts, and met its practical end when most of the rebels were caught in nearby Petersham.

Berkeley launched a series of successful amphibious attacks across the Chesapeake Bay and defeated the rebels.

The convoy goes to the Iranian border, where the three Americans will escort the rebels across to protect them from the Iraqi soldiers guarding the crossing.

In it, the three lead characters attempt to escort Iraqi rebels across the border to Iran.

Similarly, in 1991, when Shi ' a across Iraq revolted against Hussein's regime ( partially in response to the televised rallying call to do so by U. S. President George H. W. Bush ), the U. S. justification for ultimately staying out of the revolt and allowing Hussein's security forces to suppress the rebels was that the U. S. had strategically decided Hussein's rule was better than the risk of a mujahideen-or Iranian Revolution-style takeover.

After leaders were elected in Palermo, messengers were sent to spread word across the island for the rebels to strike now before the oppressor had time to organise resistance.

On each, they made a ' human-net ' of troops and swept across the whole island to flush out any hiding rebels.

* 15 February and 16: Nepalese state radio reports that 13 Maoist rebels were killed in seven separate small clashes with security forces across the country.

The Cornish army then proceeded to march east across the Tamar border into Devon to join with the Devon rebels near Crediton.

Hawkins, whose usual task is to reveal the royal infant's distinct birthmark ( the sign of his ancestry ) to prospective rebel recruits, is charged with the task of carrying the child across the country to safety when Roderick's men threaten to discover the rebels.

The rebels attacked across the river forcing Pembroke to retreat and pull his men back some distance.

The stand taken by the " rebels " not only challenged the school's unchecked authority over student and faculty activities, but also marked a shift in American antislavery efforts from colonization to abolition, and many of them became ministers, abolitionists and social reformers across the country.

These atrocities, together with the popularity of the republican ideal, and British repression of republican political expression, led to widespread support across Ireland for the Irish rebels.

Along with Edward he besieged and captured Winchelsea, fighting off rebels across the Thames in May.

However Geoffrey adds that Arthur twice took troops across the sea to Armorica, once to support the Roman emperor and once to deal with his own rebels.

The early victories of the rebels in Tabriz greatly influenced other Constitutionalists across Iran.

* February 10-At least 50 Iraqis are killed when rebels attack targets across the country.