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 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.

The rebels retreated across the line of the Tisza.

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.

* 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.

Water cisterns two-thirds of the way up the cliff drain the nearby wadis by an elaborate system of channels, which explains how the rebels managed to conserve enough water for such a long time.

* December 1 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray, 10 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh.

The following night the rebels camped at nearby Eaton Wood and then, having been refused permission to march through Norwich to reach Mousehold Heath north-east of the city, crossed the River Wensum at Hellesdon and spent the night at Drayton.

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.

News reaches Burgoyne that American rebels have taken a nearby town, so he and his troops are in danger, especially since orders from London that would have sent reinforcements were never dispatched.

In the end, however, the rebels insisted upon the dismissal of all who had taken shelter in his house, and on the bishop's refusal he was seized and imprisoned with some others to the nearby island castle of Lough Oughter, Cloughoughter Castle.

The rebels had driven the ruling Count Louis I out of Flanders and sought to press their advantage by occupying Cassel and attacking the French royal army nearby.

Jafar orders Iago to release him, but Iago rebels against Jafar and throws the lamp into a nearby well.

The Romans crushed the rebels at nearby Melun and took control of Lutetia.

A handful of rebels, including Fidel Castro, escaped into the nearby countryside but were apprehended shortly thereafter.

The rebels from Ulster defeated a government force at Julianstown, but failed to take nearby Drogheda and were scattered when they advanced on Dublin.

Like nearby Newcastle and Saggart, Rathcoole was on the periphery of the Pale and was the site of many battles with mountain-based rebels, particularly the noted Joyce clan.

A plaque there commemorates the brief landing on the nearby island of Inishmacadurn ( or Rutland Island ) of a French military force led by James Napper Tandy in a failed attempt to assist rebels during the 1798 rebellion on 16 September 1798.

The rebels blockade the bridge over the nearby river, but they lack any artillery or military training.

This perception was soon shattered when the rebels failed to take nearby Drogheda, but by then the Pale lords had already committed themselves to rebellion.

In 1931, during the Cristero War between the secular state and Catholic rebels, the image was stolen and taken to the nearby village of San Antonio.

Not aware that the rebels were gathering to surrender on the Curragh plain, Duff reinforced his column and marched to the nearby town of Kildare, and on to the adjacent southwest corner of the Curragh.

In the eighteenth century the castle was occupied briefly by Jacobite rebels, but was quickly recaptured by soldiers from Berwick who imprisoned the rebels ; they dug their way out and hid for nine days close to nearby Bamburgh Castle before making good their escape.

At a nearby tavern, Alana learns of her brother's imprisonment and asks Talon to rescue him, along with a faction of rebels who have been recently trapped by Cromwell's forces.

* Around this time, there was another nearby group of rebels led by Chen Mu ( 陳牧 ) and Liao Zhan ( 廖湛 ) known as the Pinglin Force ( 平林兵 ) because both Chen and Liao were from Pinglin ( in modern Suizhou, Hubei ).

* In the church at Crooke, County Waterford, there is a marker to indicate the grave of the " Unknown Croppy ", ( the " Unknown Soldier " of the rebellion ) as the nearby Passage East and Geneva Barracks were sites of execution and transportation of many rebels.