Then she said: "I have landed upon a foreign shore, and burned my ships behind me.

Will you change your mind about not burning their ships?

They burned their ships and built a fortress and a walled city around it.

They were too few and so they retreated south and could only watch as we burned their ships.

Some of our ancestors burned their ships before an attack.

If you can't, I might have to burn all their ships to keep them here, whether they like it or not.

Burn their ships, or at least force them off the coast and prevent them landing for supplies.

They landed in the vicinity of Southampton and burned their ships.

Modern naval warfare isn't like Troy, you can't burn their ships drawn up on the shore.

Collier gave chase, eventually forcing the Americans to burn their ships and flee into the woods.