ambuscade

Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the 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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Ojeda sallied forth to meet them, and the Indians fled to the ambuscade.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

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

From Graham of Claverhouse by Ian Maclaren

Within a month Chinese troops ambuscaded a French column at Bac-Le and the Government decided on a punitive expedition.

From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright

Perceiving, from the intermittent fire, that it was a small party which had ambuscaded him, Marin, the Indian scout and leader, attempted a landing below the Americans, in order to cut off their retreat.

From "Old Put" The Patriot by Frederick Albion Ober

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

Besides, there was Papa Gato ambuscaded somewhere upon the flanks of the great volcano surmounting the pueblo.

From Caybigan by James Hopper

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 Bret Harte

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

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