death marchn.

1762 A. Hill tr. Voltaire Merope (Dublin ed.) iii. ii. 32 (stage direct.) Solemn Procession to a Death March [1749, 1750 Dead March].

1818 Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. July 225/2 From the silver fife and muffled drum, The solemn death-march..Measured the hero's progress to his home.

1823 F. D. Hemans Siege Valencia 257 With a measured pace, as the pace of one, Was the still death-march of the host begun.

1868 W. C. Bennett Proposals for & Contributions to Ballad Hist. Eng. 99 (title) The death-march of Wellington.

1911 J. A. Fuller-Maitland Brahms ix. 204 The first number consoles those who mourn the death of a beloved one; the second begins with the wonderful death-march of the race on its way to the grave.

1949 Life 12 Dec. 32/1 Thus began the strange death march to the cemetery, a weary two miles away.

2011 G. M. Cummins Mahler Re-composed vi. 405 The fatal Sixth Symphony, with its gongs and death marches and hammer blows to the composer's head.

1845 C. MacFarlane French Revol. III. Contents p. vi The Night before Death—Preparing for the Scaffold—The Death March.

1861 Robin Goodfellow 13 July 49/2 I think that the British army is the best treated in the world; and even the death-march to Guildford, though heartily to be deplored, does not alter my opinion.

1897 Daily News 10 Dec. 7/2 During what was known as the ‘death march’ from Gundamuk to Peshawur..one battalion was..decimated..by cholera.

1934 E. Cunningham Triggernometry xvi. 384 The time came for the death march. Horn was physically shaky from confinement.

1962 Guardian 16 Feb. 7/2 This is the authentic Jewish experience: herding, the death-march, endless hunger.

2004 L. de Bernières Birds without Wings (2005) lxxxiv. 445 What follows is an exact repetition of the death marches of Aegean Greeks in 1914, the death marches of Armenians in 1915, and the death marches of British prisoners of war after the fall of Kut.