However, the rebels chased the legions and killed the surviving legionaries.

The Neustrian rebels had chased Louis the Stammerer from Le Mans, his capital, earlier that year.

The rebels, supplied by the Tutsi-led Government of neighboring Rwanda, have been chasing remnants of Zaire's army and its Hutu allies through thick Central African forests.

The rebels chased half the country's population of 4.5 million out of their homes in the 1990's.

In Congo, in which I've had a special interest ever since Tutsi rebels chased me through the jungle there for several days in 1997, 3.3 million people have died because of warfare there in the last five years, according to a study by the International Rescue Committee.

The rebels took the bait and chased after the advance party only to be hit by several musket volleys from the waiting soldiers.

As rebels have chased the Qaddafi military from much of the arid highlands in Libya's west this spring and summer, Yafran has become the easternmost outpost of a cultural and linguistic reawakening that has expanded across the map, and plans to expand more.

British Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton was unwilling to let the rebels escape back to the North and chased after them, another act that alienated more loyalists.

Sparked by the withdrawal of Qaddafi's forces from Ajdabiya last weekend under devastating allied air strikes, and spurred on by the belief that they would somehow sweep westward to Qaddafi's stronghold of Sirt, and on to Tripoli, the rebels chased their retreating foes on Monday to within fifty miles of Sirt.