Mass military retreat resembles a chaotic, animal-like stampede of vehicles and refugees

Evidence

The procession was heading for the Meuse—an avalanche in a tunnel of dust, the muddy, rumbling stream roaring like a herd of water buffalo running from a jungle fire toward a ford in the river. — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 401

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 401