The northmen would have to march down this valley, and perhaps, with a little assistance, this small force might be able to bottle them up in the valley long enough for most of the refugees to escape westward.

They then returned to Young's Point where they blocked Confederates from escaping westward from Vicksburg.

Since Mr. Honecker's flight into exile last year, several former East German border guards have been tried and convicted on charges of shooting citizens who were trying to escape westward.

Fortuitously, Levi contracted scarlet fever just prior to the Germans' evacuation of the camp and thus escaped a terrible march westward, which few survived.

Despite this assault, many of the communist forces escaped westward, deeper into Cambodia, or to the rural areas of the north-east, where they would provide support for the insurgency against Lon Nol.

Our first objective is to drive diem away from Amsterdam, so when we attack we want to make sure that the survivors try to escape to the westward.

The story begins with the central character Bardiya, a Saka tribesman, escaping westward across the steppe on horseback from the brutal Tugar people.

He then took his mother and escaped westward, traveling night and day.

Airlangga, accompanied by his guard Narottama, escaped westward into the jungle and retreated as a hermit in Vanagiri (today Wonogiri, Central Java).

The area that was selected ended up with the result that refugees were enabled to escape predominantly westward, into eastern Zaire.