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The Romans were put to flight and 2, 700 of them were killed before the rest could take refuge behind the palisade of the camp.
A Byzantine army of relief under Michael Tarchaneiotes arrived in March 1281 : Hugh of Sully was ambushed and captured, and his army put to flight.
A mile from this episode, in Amourettes, a boy of eleven was seized, but the Beast was put to flight by neighbors coming to his aid.
From here, the joint army attempted to recover the recently fallen burh at Bedford, but were severely defeated and put to flight by the English garrison.
He reached D�n Bolg where his camp was attacked by the Laigin who were at first successful, but in a counter-attack they were put to flight.

Scott first encountered stiff resistance at Contreras where the Mexicans were finally put to flight after suffering an estimated 700 casualties and the loss of 800 prisoners.
As a result, the Western senators and like-minded House members who for years have used legislative sneak attacks to cripple environmental laws were largely put to flight.
T�im Sn�ma mac Flainn was opposed by the sons of Cellach, presumably D�ngal and in 761 they were defeated by T�im Sn�ma and were put to flight.
More than 200, 000 people _ mostly civilians _ are dead or missing, and more than 2 million others have been put to flight or left homeless.
Their success may have been largely due to the poor morale of the hoplites who had just witnessed the rest of their army broken and put to flight.

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