retreat

Examples of retreat in the following topics:

• Meeting In Person (Conferences, Hackfests, Code-a-Thons, Code Sprints, Retreats)

• When to retreat

• The Battle of Shiloh

  • The Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United States history up to that time, ending their hopes that they could block the Union advance into northern Mississippi.
  • This map shows the direction of the Confederate attack and the Union retreat at the first day of the Battle of Shiloh.
  • The Union forces were badly surprised and suffered severe casualties in their retreat to Pittsburgh Landing.

• The Battle of Gettysburg

  • The Battle of Gettysburg resulted in the Confederate Army's retreat and the war turning in favor of the Union.
  • Lee led his army on a torturous retreat back to Virginia.
  • The immediate reaction of the Southern military and public sectors was that Gettysburg was a setback, not a disaster, as the Union army failed to completely destroy the retreating army.

• Washington's Escape from New York

  • Washington and much of his army crossed the Hudson River into New Jersey, and retreated all the way across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania, shrinking due to ending enlistment periods, desertions, and poor morale.
  • General Howe then began to lay siege to the works, but Washington skillfully managed a nighttime retreat through his unguarded rear across the East River to Manhattan Island.
  • To defend against this move, Washington withdrew most of his army to White Plains, where, after a short battle in October, he retreated further north.
  • Washington brought much of his army across the Hudson into New Jersey, but was immediately forced to retreat by the aggressive British advance and withdrew across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania.

• McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

  • McClellan attempted to capture Richmond in the Peninsular Campaign, but numerous sieges forced his retreat.
  • An amphibious flanking movement to Eltham's Landing was ineffective in cutting off the Confederate retreat.
  • In turn, the Union’s morale was crushed following McClellan’s retreat and what was perceived to be poor strategic planning on the part of Union army leadership.

• The Year of Blood

  • After a day of indecisive fighting near the Sandusky towns, the Americans found themselves surrounded and attempted to retreat.
  • During the retreat, Colonel Crawford and others were captured.

• Slowing Momentum

  • Hitler's refusal to allow a retreat led to the deaths of 200,000 German and Romanian soldiers; of those who surrendered on 31 January 1943, only 6,000 survivors returned to Germany after the war.
  • In November 1942, the Wehrmacht and the Italian Army retreated to Tunisia, where they fought the Americans and the British in the Tunisia Campaign (November 17, 1942–May 13, 1943).

• Past and Present Effects of Climate Change

  • Modern-day phenomena, such as retreating glaciers and melting polar ice, cause a continual rise in sea level.
  • Glacier National Park in Montana, among others, is undergoing the retreat of many of its glaciers, a phenomenon known as glacier recession.
  • The effect of global warming can be seen in the continuing retreat of Grinnel Glacier.

• The British Strategy

  • By August, Hull and his troops, numbering 2,500 with the addition of 500 Canadians, retreated to Detroit, where they surrendered to a force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Native Americans led by British Major General Isaac Brock and Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
  • After losing several battles to inferior forces, the Americans retreated in disarray in October 1813.
  • They were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat towards Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.