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
Saving and paying for college is an endurance test, a forced march on an often 50-year parade, where strange numerical codes and senseless jumbles of letters mark a route that Waze can’t map.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024
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
The forced march ordered by Congress removed 80,000 Native Americans from the eastern United States.
From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2022
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
