What is "decamped"

Usage examples of "decamped".

But Armsmen, servants, vehicles, and all the rest of the household had decamped with the Count and Countess for the Viceroys Palace on Sergyar (though his mother had written him dryly that the term "palace" was most misleading).

Several clan leaders have decamped Nal Hutta for Ganath, Ylesia, even Tatooine, and with the Yuuzhan Vong fleet blockading Hutt space, the New Republic couldn’t help even if it wanted to.

He ordered Domitius's soldiers to take the oath to himself, and that day decamped and performed the regular march.

Accordingly, taking advantage of the unusual ardor of the soldiers, he began his assault on the town at a little after three o'clock on the very day on which he arrived, and took it, though defended with very high walls, before sunset, and gave it up to his army to plunder, and immediately decamped from before it, and marched to Metropolis, with such rapidity as to outstrip any messenger or rumor of the taking of Gomphi.

Cassius, provoked at these mutinies, decamped, and the next day came to Segovia, upon the river Xenil.

Next day he decamped, and directed his march toward Sarsura, where Scipio had a garrison of Numidians, and a magazine of corn.

The same day Pompey decamped, and posted himself in an olive-wood over against Hispalis.

Boston was at once regarrisoned with five regiments of American troops under Israel Putnam, while the rest of the army decamped for New York and its vicinity, where Washington expected the British to strike next.

On April 7, he decamped from Ramsay’s Mills, and on the nineteenth he took up a position on Hobkirk’s Hill, about two miles to the north of Camden, where Lord Francis Rawdon, Cornwallis’s second in command, was strongly entrenched with 1,500 men.

Some ironist who decamped back Out There and left his meager effects to be bagged and tossed by Staff into the Ennet House attic had, all the way back in the Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad, permanently engraved his tribute to AA's real Prime Directive with a rosewood-handled boot-knife in the plastic seat of the 5-Man men's room's commode: 'Do not ask WHY If you dont want to DIE Do like your TOLD If you want to get OLD143 30 APRIL / 1 MAY YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT The choreography of interface had settled into the form of Steeply smoking, his bare arms crossed, going up and down slowly on the toes of his high heels, while Marathe hunched slightly in his metal chair, shoulders rounded and head slightly forward in a practiced position that allowed him almost to sleep while still attending to every detail of a conversation or wearisome surveillance.

Some of the pond's flightier ducks have already decamped for points south, and more leave on some phylogenic cue just as the shiny trucks pull up, but the main herd remains.

But Armsmen, servants, vehicles, and all the rest of the household had decamped with the Count and Countess for the Viceroy's Palace on Sergyar (though his mother had written him dryly that the term "palace" was most misleading).