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.

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.

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.

Things went badly after the Eighty Years ' War started in 1568, but luck turned to his advantage when Protestant rebels attacking from the North Sea captured Brielle, a coastal town in present-day South Holland in 1572.

This search for Cade ’ s rebels occurred in and around the area of the revolt: Blackheath, Canterbury — which was on the road leading to London — and also the counties in which Cade had found many of his followers, such as the coastal areas of Sheppey and Faversham.

In 1860, Zuo was given command of a force of 5, 000 volunteers, the Xiang Army ( later known as " Chu Army "), and by September of that year, he drove the Taiping rebels out of Hunan and Guangxi provinces, into coastal Zhejiang.

Amidst the August rebel coastal offensive, rebels took Zuwara on 18 August.

The rebels had been armed to take up coastal defense against the Barbary pirates, and saw the Muslims as both collaborators with the raiding overseas Muslims and competitors for jobs.

However, Rwandan rebels continue to operate ( as of May 2007 ) in the northeast Congo and Kivu regions.

Many coup d ' état in the Central African Republic only happened between the rebels and each government in place to control diamonds regions.

In the regions, the Darul Islam rebels under Kartosuwirjo in West Java refused to acknowledge Sukarno's authority and declared a NII ( Negara Islam Indonesia-Islamic State of Indonesia ) on August 1949.

In the mountainous regions of the island, native rebels fought a quite effective guerilla war, but the occupiers answered harshly with arrests and executions.

In the year 1755, the acclaimed Mughal viceroy of Punjab, Muin-ul-Mulk died his widow Mughlam Begum desperately sought the assistance of Ahmad Shah Durrani to halt any succession struggle and to quell the Sikh rebels in the eastern regions.

After General Zuo Zongtang and his Xiang Army crushed the rebels, they demanded Russia return the occupied regions.

By the late 1872, the Qing armies led by general Zuo Zongtang had destroyed the Hui rebels in the regions to the east of Hezhou ( Shaanxi and Ningxia ), and reached the Tao River, separating the today's Linxia Prefecture from its eastern neighbor, Dingxi to the east.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

Charlemagne's force eventually headed back to France via a narrow pass in the Pyrenees, where his rearguard was wiped out by Basque and Gascon rebels ( this disaster inspired the epic Chanson de Roland ).

Both of these factors favor rebels, as a population dispersed outward toward the borders is harder to control than one concentrated in a central region, while mountains offer terrain where rebels can seek sanctuary.

# North and South Kivu, where Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda ( FDLR ) continues to threaten the Rwandan border and the Banyamulenge, and where Rwanda supports RCD-Goma rebels against Kinshasa ( see Kivu war ).

In the summer of that year, Prince Edward moved at the Isle of Ely, where the last of the rebels still held out, and forced them into submission under terms favourable to the rebels.

In addition, the British cruiser arrived in Galway Bay and shelled the fields around Athenry where the rebels were based.

The first shot shows the gate to the mission station from the outside being attacked and broken open by Chinese Boxer rebels, then there is a cut to the garden of the mission station where the missionary and his family are seated.

Yet his friend and protector John of Gaunt was the most hated by the rebels, and where Wycliffe's influence was greatest the uprising found the least support.

By the end of the story, rebels have established themselves at another stellar system — where their descendants, the reader is told, would eventually build a liberating fleet and set out back to Earth.

Henry fought his next military campaign in Normandy from 1111 onwards, where rebels led by Robert of Bellême were opposing his rule.

William immediately attacked the rebels and drove them from Remalard, but King Philip gave them the castle at Gerberoi, where they were joined by new supporters.

She told the Venetian ambassador in June 1568 that all one could expect from Huguenots was deceit, and she praised the Duke of Alba's reign of terror in the Netherlands, where Calvinists and rebels were put to death in the thousands.

Henry of Lancaster was then sent to Wales in order to fetch the King and the younger Despenser ; on 16 November he with Welsh rebels caught Edward, Despenser and their soldiers in the open country near Tonyrefail, where a plaque now commemorates the event.

Isobel and her father ( who is an important member of the rebels ) are safe at the very base where Harvey is taken.

This desperation would mount to futile charges by the rebels, where they were eventually defeated by the shogunate army.

The first big clash in the Swedish War of Liberation that now started, took place at Brunnbäck's Ferry in April, where the rebels defeated an army loyal to the king.

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.

The rebels – themselves, fearful of artillery on the higher ground around St James's – did not press their attack and marched onto Ludgate ; where they were met by the Tower Garrison and surrendered.

Edgar and the other exiles sailed to the Humber, where they linked up with Northumbrian rebels and the Danes.

He promised the rebels that all was well, that Tyler had been knighted, and that their demands would be met — they were to march to St John's Fields, where Wat Tyler would meet them.

On Friday 12 July the rebels reached Mousehold, where they had a vantage point overlooking Norwich, and set up the camp that was their base for the next six and a half weeks.