Examples of using Were driven back in English and their translations into French
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But on 1 September the French were driven back into Metz, with a loss of 3,379 soldiers and 145 officers.
On the same night, the coalition attacked but were driven back by ambush forces deployed earlier by Cao Cao.
They were driven back by the Al-Aqsa guards
invade India, but were driven back into Burma with heavy losses.
However, the allies soon ran into Emmanuel Grouchy's main line of resistance and were driven back by a powerful counterattack.
the Boers were driven back, with losses on both sides.
Confederate reinforcements were rushed to Matthew's Hill but were driven back to Henry House Hill.
Dunovant's men advanced as far as the ditch and abatis, but were driven back by heavy fire.
Patrols sent out from the fort to harass the Union soldiers were driven back, usually without loss.
tried to occupy positions held by the Chadian army but were driven back.
After the rebels were driven back, Tyndale's brigade began their movement at the edge of the Cornfield
They were driven back by arquebus fire, and so Hideyoshi felt confident enough to launch the right wing of his forces, under the command of Kato Mitsuyasu and Ikeda Tsuneoki, across the river, and into Mitsuhide's front lines.
and in memory of those who were driven back by the Swiss borders.
other allied units were driven back to the coast at Dunkirk, but managed to escape
the Confederate defenders were driven back by the numerically superior Union forces,
the Americans were driven back by the boarders.
the Americans were driven back, but had almost succeeded in turning Fraser's left flank when Riedesel
the Mongol forces were driven back to their ships.
the Poles were driven back by Cossacks and the Russians.
Over the next three years they were driven back over the Danube River in a series of campaigns by the emperors Claudius II Gothicus and Aurelian.