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Example sentences for "evacuated"

Lexicographically close words:
eux; euyl; euyll; euyn; evacuate; evacuates; evacuating; evacuation; evacuations; evade
  1. And Austria, yielding with the best grace possible to the representations of the Holy Father, evacuated Ferrara.

  2. Viterbo was evacuated on the 4th of August.

  3. General Stewart, who had just evacuated Candahar under provisions of the recent treaty, re-occupied it; General Baker advanced by the Shutar Gardan and seized Kushi.

  4. A Convention between the British and Chinese Plenipotentiaries was concluded on October 24, and Pekin was evacuated by the Allied troops on November 5.

  5. The Residency was evacuated on the 22nd, and Havelock, outworn with the heroic exertions of the past six months, died on the 24th.

  6. Barastre, had been rapidly evacuated by the enemy who had left a quantity of material behind him.

  7. Before the king of the Huns evacuated Italy, he threatened to return more dreadful, and more implacable, if his bride, the princess Honoria, were not delivered to his ambassadors within the term stipulated by the treaty.

  8. The Goths evacuated the city at the end of six days, but Rome remained above nine months in the possession of the Imperialists; and every hour was stained by some atrocious act of cruelty, lust, and rapine.

  9. The retreat of the victorious Goths, who evacuated Rome on the sixth day, [118] might be the result of prudence; but it was not surely the effect of fear.

  10. We are assured by Idatius, that Genseric evacuated Spain, cum Vandalis omnibus eorumque familiis; and Possidius (in Vit.

  11. On the 18th of June the British evacuated Philadelphia, and took up their line of march through the Jerseys.

  12. They were carried immediately to the fort—the Americans at once evacuated it—and the body of Jennie was sent down the river in the bateau in which she was to have gone to her brother.

  13. The bulk of its inhabitants were secretly in sympathy with the Chilians, and the Spanish garrison evacuated the place and fled almost immediately the ships opened fire.

  14. Accordingly, on the 2nd of July the whole squadron of war-ships, and seventy merchantmen and transports carrying the troops, evacuated Bahia.

  15. Such was the terror of the Taepings that the imperial garrisons did not attempt the least resistance, and town after town was evacuated at their approach.

  16. As the Eleuth army had evacuated Tibet there was no object in sending Chinese troops into that state, and Kanghi's generals were instructed to march westward from Hami to Turfan.

  17. The rebels evacuated their position and retreated, closely pursued by the imperialists.

  18. Both columns arrived together, and the disheartened Chinese evacuated Shanghai after firing one or two random shots.

  19. Tayan was evacuated two days after the fall of Changchow, leaving Nankin alone in their hands.

  20. The attack was repeated in force on the following day, and after some fighting the Taepings evacuated their stockades.

  21. Wusieh had been evacuated on the fall of Soochow, and Chung Wang's force retired to Changchow, while that chief himself returned to Nankin.

  22. The Chinese paid an indemnity of half a million taels, and the Japanese evacuated the island.

  23. They again evacuated this town, and yet once again, in 1855, wrested it from an imperial garrison.

  24. Various difficulties presented themselves with regard to the foreign settlements, and the island of Kulangsu at Amoy had to be evacuated because its name was not mentioned in the treaty.

  25. Before they evacuated Fashoda, they ought to have remembered that Government officials were living here (Equatorial Provinces) who had performed their duty, and had not deserved to be left to their fate without more ado.

  26. Notwithstanding, he carried on for eighteen hours, and was only evacuated at length by the direct orders of the Commanding Officer.

  27. Immediately after that came orders for following up the enemy, if he voluntarily evacuated his trenches; and before we were half through that came schemes for the defence of Armentières in the event of an attack by the Germans.

  28. Lieutenant Thomas was evacuated sick on May 28th to No.

  29. That night the Adjutant was evacuated to hospital, sick, and Captain F.

  30. It appeared that the enemy, who had evacuated Lille in the early hours of the previous morning, was retiring on the Scheldt, and fighting a rearguard action as he went.

  31. Lieutenants Novelle and Thomas in turn acted as Signalling Officers, though the inspiration of Lieutenant Hazell, until he was evacuated shortly before the Armistice, was always present.

  32. Captain Wurtzburg and 2nd-Lieutenant Jones had been evacuated to England sick, and 2nd-Lieutenant A.

  33. On our arrival at Ana we were told that orders had come through that the town be evacuated on the following morning.

  34. Sometimes it was so severe that the victim had to be evacuated to India; as a rule he went no farther than a base hospital at Baghdad or Amara.

  35. We had heard reports during the night that the Turks had evacuated Tuz--but it was not long before we found that such was not the case.

  36. As was foreseen, the enemy evacuated the town with scarce a show of resistance.

  37. I asked him if the enemy had evacuated Tauq.

  38. During the night the Turks evacuated the town.

  39. We were the only three members of the family left in active service since my brother Quentin, the aviator, was brought down over the enemy lines, and Archie, severely wounded in leg and arm, had been evacuated to the United States.

  40. Before we had gone many miles the road crossed a portion of the far-famed Hindenburg line which had here remained intact until evacuated by the Boche a few days previously under the terms of the armistice.

  41. No one could sign unless his service record was at hand, and as this was forwarded to the hospital "through military channels" when a man was evacuated sick or wounded, it rarely reached his unit until several months after he returned.

  42. The French troops evacuated them, the soldiers being severely burned before they could escape.

  43. Illustration: Embarking the stores at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, two days before the British and French forces evacuated their positions at this part of the peninsula and removed the troops to Salonica.

  44. Not till after the fall of Przemysl was the connection restored, when the Russians had to fall back from Kalusz and Nadvorna; on June 9 they evacuated Obertzn, Horodenka, Kocman and Sniatyn.

  45. The place was evacuated without a struggle, but it showed that much work had been done to fortify it, and that the enemy had intended to resist.

  46. These, of course, could not have been evacuated in time, and the patients consequently swelled the number of prisoners.

  47. He evacuated his first two lines of trenches while the artillery was doing what it could to demolish his parapets; but his men were drawn up in the third line of trenches waiting for the inevitable advance of the British.

  48. When the Confederates evacuated Yorktown, General Franklin's division had just been disembarked from the transports.

  49. Accordingly, the city was evacuated on the same day.

  50. Our artillery was at once brought into action, and opened on the enemy, but he soon evacuated his works, and our men from the other columns rushed into them.

  51. By this time the report that Richmond was to be evacuated had spread through the town, and many who saw me walking toward my residence left their houses to inquire whether the report was true.

  52. Some went down long after the Confederate forces had evacuated Mobile.

  53. The enemy evacuated Martinsburg and retired to Harper's Ferry on the night of the 11th, and Jackson entered the former on the 12th.

  54. Columbus, as has been stated, had previously been evacuated by our forces and occupied by the enemy.

  55. Mercer was evacuated when an overwhelming force advanced against it, and on November 21 most of the American vessels were set on fire by their crews.

  56. On November 3 he evacuated Crown Point and began the withdrawal to Canada.

  57. In the Morea the Turks evacuated Tripolitza and Missolonghi and acknowledged the independence of Greece.

  58. King Joseph, with Soult and Jourdan, now moved on Madrid, and the French force being thus overwhelmingly strong, Wellington evacuated the capital and fell back 200 miles to the line of the Tormes, followed by Soult and Jourdan.

  59. I was convinced that the enemy had evacuated the place, which soon proved to be the case.

  60. The enemy evacuated it yesterday, and had an officer and thirty men taken by our cavalry.

  61. In consequence of this belief Major Craig, in command of the post, deeming his situation then insecure, immediately evacuated Wilmington and fled to Charleston.

  62. The enemy was so impressed by the spirit evinced in these assaults, that, dreading a further attack, they evacuated Beddinore without an attempt to defend it, which was immediately occupied by the British in January, 1783.

  63. One fine May morning, that of the 4th, it was known that Magruder had evacuated Yorktown the night before, and under the command of our new brigade commander, Brigadier General Henry M.

  64. He did not appear to us again, but it was said that he evacuated his bed and fled to the lower extremity of the island, as the first shell broke unceremoniously in upon his private apartment.

  65. The next day he started for Saint-Polten (already evacuated by Hiller).

  66. The enemy at once evacuated it, and took refuge in the tank, from behind whose high bank they opened fire upon the English.

  67. Three days later the French evacuated and blew up the fort of Ariangopang, which the English were preparing to attack, and the India regiment retired into the town, leaving, however, the usual guard in the Ariangopang redoubt.

  68. The enemy, hearing the music and supposing that the whole of the German troops had come up, evacuated the position and fell back with precipitation.

  69. The cannon on the works which the Americans had erected there opened fire, but the troops were landed, and the enemy at once evacuated their works, setting fire to their store-houses and mills.

  70. The enemy evacuated the place on their approach, and the English set fire to the great magazines filled with stores of all kinds.

  71. A number of additional cannon now arrived from Augusta, and so heavy and incessant a fire was opened upon the stockade from three batteries that on the 17th it was no longer tenable, and the garrison evacuated it in the night.

  72. At the same time Arnold, who commanded at Montreal, evacuated the town and joined Sullivan's army at St. John's.

  73. Having ascended the Cumberland River, and ascertained that the enemy had evacuated all the prominent points on it, Gen.

  74. When Fort Henry surrendered, the enemy quartered at Fort Heiman evacuated the place, leaving behind them all their camp and garrison equipage.

  75. When the news finally came that Corinth was ours, but that the enemy had evacuated it, there was a feeling of sadness ran through the public mind.

  76. The enemy that had evacuated Forts Henry and Heiman fell back and strengthened Fort Donelson.

  77. The pressure now became so heavy, that the enemy evacuated Corinth, and moved Southward toward Okolona.

  78. The news that Napoleon was in Vilna, hastily evacuated by the Russians in full retreat, came as a surprise and not to all as a pleasant one, in Dantzig.

  79. During the night the Russians evacuated the position which they had held, and lost, and retaken.

  80. The letter brings out vividly the perils of the garrison, which must have evacuated Toulon had not reinforcements speedily arrived.

  81. The French restored Egypt to the Sultan, and evacuated Naples and the Papal States.

  82. Their anger was not appeased by the successes of the Neapolitans near Rome, which the French evacuated on 29th November.


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evacuated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.