forced march
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One word encapsulates this forced march of slaves westward, along with a disproportionate part of the Black role in America’s economic emergence: cotton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
He had just arrived by bus from Pirot on the Serbia-Bulgaria border, he said, after a gruelling 25-day forced march across Bulgaria.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
Rescued by U.S. troops in 1945 while on a forced march from Dachau, he spent two years in a displaced persons camp before emigrating to the United States in 1947.
From Slate • May 21, 2022
And he survived a forced march when his weight dropped from 135 pounds to about 90 pounds before he could escape on April 15, 1945.
From Washington Times • Nov. 21, 2020
His fallback plan is yet another forced march, this one to the city of Danville, where more than a million rations are supposed to await.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
