ambuscade
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The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.
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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.
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He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade.
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The general belief was that the King was a chance victim of the ambuscade which was intended for the Orchanie-Sofia autobus, occupants of which were known to be carrying large sums of money.
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Also we have ambassade, ambuscade, balustrade, brigade, cascade, &c. from French, words in -ade.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Here, in 1776, a troop of Sheldon's Horse ambuscaded a body of Hessians, only one of whom escaped.
From The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine
On the 5th of November the army, misled by treacherous guides and thirst-stricken, was ambuscaded in dense forest at Kashgil, 30 m. south of Obeid.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
It does not appear whether the Spanish or the natives of Yucatan were the aggressors, but the upshot of it was that the Spanish were ambuscaded and several of them were badly wounded.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
He tripped them up with facts, ambuscaded them with facts, bombarded them with broadsides of facts.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
His fleet was ambuscaded and surrounded, and when his men had made their last stand he refused to surrender.
From Peeps at Many Lands: Norway by A. Heaton (Alfred Heaton) Cooper
Re-enforcements came from Holland, and under Calabar's guidance the Dutch learned the value of ambuscading and made sudden expeditions which took the important settlements by surprise.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
The gardens and grounds of Haverly Lodge were that night such a terrain as best suits the ambuscading warfare of the small god with the bow and darts.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
The ambuscading forces now made their presence known, and, displaying their hats upon the muzzles of their guns, made a show of twice their actual strength.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
And there they prospered for a blessed time Until Elimelech in his lordly prime, Hasting those cattle-spoilers to pursue, The ambuscading sons of Anak slew.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
That boy must be a throw-back, thought the colonel, to the ambuscading, feud-fighting men on his mother’s side.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
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