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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He lost three of the next four games before he recovered from the shock of that one intellectual ambuscade.
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Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.
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I have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas.
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Determined to prevent this, they had planned the ambuscade, and two other still stronger earthworks which awaited him further on.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
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
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 Frederick Albion Ober
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
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
If it hadn't been for War Eagle Ivus and his buck sheep breakin' out, they'd have ambuscaded ye, surer'n palm-leaf fans can't cool the kitchen o' hell.
From The Ramrodders A Novel by Holman Day
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
Colonel Butler hearing the firing on his right and rear imagined he was discovered, and that instead of ambuscading the rebels, he was himself to be surprised by this unexpected attack in the rear.
From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh
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
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
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
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