Meanings of compelled even in English

The party were compelled even to leave their dead on the field.

We are intrigued, compelled even, by the inner world of celebrities.

But taking the worst and most iconoclastic as true, are we compelled even then to surrender our Christian faith?

It compelled even me, who has failed to understand the offside rule almost as many times as she has been to the theatre.

The mischievous little boy of the bow had compelled even gods and heroes to submit to all sorts of odd tests and means.

He even talked of ordering his admiral, Baltaoghlu, to be impaled on the spot; but the janizaries present compelled even Mahomet to restrain his vengeance.