"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Many royalists fled to Virginia after their defeat in the English Civil War.
- When the Prussian government fled to Königsberg after its defeat at Jena, he followed Stein there.
- This was done in order to protect his stores and the 200 Iroquois that had fled there after George Washington's defeat at Fort Necessity.
- He fled the country for France after his defeat at the battle of Worcester in September 1651.
- When Charles II fled across the country after his defeat at Worcester in 1651, it caused a minor flurry but no more.
- I had to learn who it was he'd taken to flee Kymil the first time after his defeat.
- Simultaneously, the soldiers fleeing back into Acholi after their defeat at Kampala often refused traditional purification ceremonies.
- According to another story, when the vampires fled from Lahmia after their defeat, many went north, yet reference is also made to a vampire who travelled east.
- In the past, most committee members were refugees from mainland China who fled here after their defeat by the Communists.
- He fled to Taiwan after Chiang Kai-shek's defeat by the Communists in 1949.
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