The British pressed madly on, like heated blood-hounds; but when they descended the slope, the village of Redinha was in flames, and the French in full retreat beyond it.
Your troops and the Dutch were conquered yesterday, and they are in full retreat on Brussels.
Newton and I, who were conversing at the time, quietly stepped aside a few paces out of the line of fire, where we were much safer than we would have been in full retreat, and then turned round to see what had become of our companions.
How long the enemy had been in that position I have never learned; but it is certain that his presence there was not even suspected by our commander, who supposed him to be in full retreat.
His instructions were "to avoid engaging the enemy until their formation was broken, and until they were in full retreat.
Horse Battery were occupied in shelling a defeated foe, in full retreat.
Then it was seen that there could be no fight, and that all that remained to be done was to pursue the Baggaras, Jaalins, and others now in full retreat.
Turks along Suez canal in full retreat; Turkish land defenses at the Dardanelles shelled by British torpedo boats.
On every French lip was the exclamation that 'They are in full retreat!
All opposition having now ceased, and the foe being in full retreat, the force bivouacked for the night.
On hearing they had gone, Hope Grant pushed on with the mounted portion of the force, and we soon came in sight of the enemy in full retreat.
He met them about five miles off in full retreat, Baum and his force a mile in their rear.
Arriving at a rising ground, Washington beheld Lee approaching with the residue of his command in full retreat.
While the relics of the Archduke Charles's army were on full retreat to Bohemia, Napoleon employed the 23d and 24th of April, to review his troops, and distributed with a liberal hand honours and rewards.
General Wright ordered them to re-form, but with the 8th and 19th corps in full retreat, the 6th could not stand alone, and with the rest were compelled to fall back, but in order.
At the sight of him our men pressed forward with their usual impetuosity, and soon the Johnnies were in full retreat.
Price, in Missouri, had been driven in confusion, and was in full retreat, followed by Rosecrans.
The night of the fourth found the enemy in full retreat, closely followed by our victorious Meade; a name hitherto known only to the army, but now will ever be remembered as one of our proudest leaders--Geo.
He talked of the war, and told how the Chilians had landed, and how the Royalists were broken up and in full retreat.
The Royalists are in full retreat--horse, foot, and artillery.
A council of war, hastily summoned, gave him the advice he wished for, and on the 28th the army had turned aside and was in full retreat on Inverness.
It was the English backs that the French saw that day: Talbot's men were in full retreat on Meun.
These soldiers had never known defeat, and yet there they were, in full retreat through a hostile country.
The 5th corps must be in full retreat on Mouzon by that time, as was indicated by the sound of the firing, which was receding more and more to the eastward, as a deadly hurricane moves off after having accomplished its disastrous work.
And so, in the ranks of that regiment that had been halted there in full retreat at the entrance of the village and ordered to resume the offensive, there was much bitter feeling, and angry words were rife.
Something was wrong again; the passage of the Meuse was abandoned, they were in full retreat to the north!
Perhaps nowhere else in history is there an instance such as this--of a general meeting his army in full retreat, stopping the panic, facing them about, and leading them to victory.
The enemy was sent in full retreat on their right, and their left followed before sunset.
He moved out, it is true, according to programme; but just when I was hoping to hear of good work being done in the valley I received instead the following announcement from Halleck: "Sigel is in full retreat on Strasburg.
He said the enemy had come out of his lines in full force and attacked and scattered McClernand's division, which was in full retreat.
By this time the attack was repulsed, and General Buller was in full retreat to Chieveley, though our commando had been unable to take an active part in the fighting, at which we were greatly disappointed.
The next day our forces were again infull retreat to Pretoria, where I understood we were to make a desperate stand.
I mounted a high kopje from which I could see the whole Orange Free State army, followed by a long line of quite 500 carts and a lot of cattle, in full retreat, and enveloped in great clouds of red dust.
On the morning of the twenty-first he declared that the enemy was in full retreat.
Yet in another ten days the Boers from Kimberley to Colesberg were in full retreat, and on February 26 Clements not only had regained his ground, but had entered Colesberg, for which French had so long manoeuvred in vain.
The artillery of the attack continued to move forward to Smith's Nek, whence the enemy's force was visible in full retreat.
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