All week long his defenders have been retreating behind the old insulting avenues of defense.

By mid morning, all defenders had retreated or been captured.

French defenders blew up the fortifications and retreated from the town on March 6.

And in the wall there were holes, made by artillery shells, through which the defenders could easily retreat.

The defenders retreated behind the great stone diving wall in the center of the keep.

With the his defenders retreating Blair will have to be much more cautious.

The defenders have retreated north more than 100 miles to secondary positions.

The defenders can not retreat if there are no adjacent states that they own.

Then the defenders retreated past the door, and turned to run.

The defenders had retreated from the city to the valleyrs around.