After a while Zanet slipped out of the fort during the night and fled inland.
While some fled inland, moving as the landscape changed and water moved, others fled to the ships.
They'd capture us easily if we tried to flee inland over that black desert, and to get away by water is virtually impossible.
An estimated 1,500 fled inland as Ella approached, leaving only 100 people to ride out the storm.
After a brief fight, he and his crew abandoned their ships and fled inland.
After a brief but fierce struggle, the pirates, including some women and children, fled inland.
"We need them to believe we are doing something entirely different, running away perhaps, fleeing inland."
The naval bombardment was so well executed that the enemy fled inland.
The Vandals were cut off from the sea and fled inland.
These bombardments forced much of Tarakan's civilian population to flee inland.