ambuscade

He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.

From Time Magazine Archive

About night they reached another deserted ambuscade, called Torna Munni, equally bare of133 food, and the remainder of the bags were now devoured.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

The enemy hastened away to Drainsville an overwhelming force, and ambuscaded the road, where it entered the woods, with artillery and men of all arms.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

For the rest of the winter Skeffington did nothing but send out a futile expedition, a detachment of which was ambuscaded: while the loyalists fumed.

From England under the Tudors by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes

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

They had lost heavily, they had been partially ambuscaded, some of their best officers were killed and some wounded; but they had no thought of surrender.

From "Old Put" The Patriot by Frederick Albion Ober

I again succeeded in ambuscading them, which caused them to give up the pursuit for the night.

From The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc. by Grenville Mellen Dodge

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

We had frequently gone out in small ambuscading parties in hopes of picking off a few of the ladrons, but without any success.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

The thick growth of grass and vines made ambuscading a favorite pastime with the Spaniards.

From History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson

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