They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

They eventually withdrew from their enterprise when faced with heavy losses.

They drove back repeated attacks by the Axis armour, who then withdrew before dusk.

They withdrew into the mountainous interior and were not subdued until 22 December and 3 January respectively.

They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapithae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.

They withdrew on 1 September when they received news that a force led by King Charles was approaching.

They stood facing each other immobile for about an hour, before the English withdrew from the field and marched off to join other English units in Meung, Beaugency and Jargeau.

They withdrew from the banks of the Suzhou River, and headed for Nanking.

They withdrew to Orkney, where they spent the winter, and in the spring Olaf returned to Norway.

They then withdrew until a fuller assembly could be arranged.

They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapidae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.

They frequently won the show of hands at the hustings, but then withdrew from the poll to expose the deeply undemocratic nature of the electoral system.

They withdrew from court to London, meeting in Dudley's residence.

They withdrew from the conflict in October 1918 but remained a presence ; their foreign adviser Maurice Janin regarded Kolchak as an instrument of the British and was pro-SR. Kolchak could not count on Japanese aid either ; the Japanese feared he would interfere with their occupation of Far Eastern Russia and refused him assistance, creating a buffer state to the east of Lake Baikal under Cossack control.

They had no broadband licence and no viable business plan without selling broadband, and due to lack of funding withdrew its application in Oct 2002.

They both contested the results, but his father died soon after, and Gage withdrew his protest in early 1755, as his regiment was being sent to America following the outbreak of the French and Indian War.

They finally withdrew from the league just before it was renamed as the NFL in 1922.

They managed to escape the fate of Napoleon's French soldiers after Yorck negotiated a battlefield truce with Russia when, during a rear-guard action, the French withdrew and left Yorck's troops isolated.

They withdrew into the mountainous interior and were not subdued until 22 December and 3 January respectively.

They subsequently withdrew in 2004 as the Socialist Workers Party prepared to drop the Socialist Alliance and launch the Respect Party coalition, which Workers Power argued was a reformist, populist and cross-class alliance which would be unstable politically.

They also perform the display towards moray eels, and in one instance towards a much larger great hammerhead ( which subsequently withdrew ).

They and the French therefore dispatched warships to Egypt to intimidate the nationalists, though the French later withdrew their contingent of the operation.

They then withdrew from the position just before the defenders called in an artillery barrage on the position and returned to the garrison holding Tobruk.

They fought with each other and the Egyptian army withdrew before him.

They would also provide RAF and Army units to support internal security in the north-east.

They are separated from the Cottian Alps in the east by the Col du Galibier and the upper Durance valley ; from the western Graian Alps ( Vanoise Massif ) in the north-east by the river Arc ; from the lower ranges Vercors Plateau and Chartreuse Mountains in the west by the rivers Drac and Isère.

They lie some to the north-east of, and about above, the fishing village of Mevagissey.

They are hung in the north-east corner of the tower, and the ringing chamber is partitioned off from the rest of the tower.

They became separated on the way and for a time dwelt on opposite shores of the Sea of Rhûn, the Lesser Folk ( Bëorians ) in the hills to the south-west and the Greater Folk ( Marachians ) in the woods to the north-east.

They stamped out the slave trade going north-east around the lake.

They are only absent from urban areas, such as the Central Belt, the flatter areas of the north-east and around Fife.

They were to bivouaced for one and a half hours before advancing to a point north-east of Bir el Abd, to cooperate with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade's attack on the rearguard position at 06: 30.

They lie to the north-east of Whangarei, and lie offshore half way between Bream Head and Cape Brett.

They were built primarily in the north-west and the north-east beginning in the late 19th century.

They include Ripanj ( on the south, the largest one, with a population of 28, 360 by the 2010 census of population ), Pinosava ( on the west, 2, 839 ), Zuce ( on the north-east, 2, 024 ), Beli Potok ( on the north, 3, 417 ), all in the municipality of Voždovac, and Vrčin ( on the east, 8, 667 ), in the municipality of Grocka.

They are located 50 – 60 km north-east of Wellington, and immediately to the south-west of the larger town of Paraparaumu.

They write Burdok in the north-east region of India.

They number about 35, 000 and are closely related to the Samburu living more to the north-east in the Rift Valley Province.

They have flat tops, and thus are more similar in shape to the Teotihuacan pyramids north-east of Mexico City, Mexico than to the pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

They are separated from the Bregaglia and Bernina ranges in the north by the Adda River valley ( Valtellina ); from the Ortler Alps in the north-east by the Aprica Pass ; from the Adamello-Presanella group in the east by the Oglio valley ( Val Camonica ).

They are known variously as York City Walls, the Bar walls and the Roman walls ( though this last is a misnomer as very little of the extant stonework is of Roman origin, and the course of the wall has been substantially altered since Roman times ). View of the city looking north-east from the city wall, near the railway station.