ambuscade

The ambuscade capped a notably disgruntling week for Labor.

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

Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

When they approached the ambuscade two Spaniards were sent out, carrying a white flag of truce.

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

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 Ober, Frederick Albion

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 Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert)

The garrison was beleaguered, foraging-parties assaulted, sorties ambuscaded, and such was the alarm, says the good Bishop Las Casas in his history, that the people feared to be burned within their dwellings.

From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Ober, Frederick Albion

I’ll not see the army ambuscaded without a warning.

From Graham of Claverhouse by Maclaren, Ian

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 Jones, John Beauchamp

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 Ogden, George W. (George Washington)

Before the assemblage could realize this new invasion, a nearer clatter of hoofs was heard along the high road, and one of the ambuscading party dashed up from the fringe of woods below.

From The Bell-Ringer of Angel's by Harte, Bret

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 Dawson, Thomas C.

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 Graves, Alfred Perceval

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 Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)