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
The forced march ordered by Congress removed 80,000 Native Americans from the eastern United States.
From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2022
But the forced march of serial questions is likely to put pressure on the justices to ask questions of both sides, whether they would ordinarily be inclined to or not.
From New York Times • May 3, 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
