ambuscade

Only about 700 Legionnaires managed to escape the ambuscade.

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

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

They must be very cocksure, or else they're trying to ambuscade us.

From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang

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

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

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

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

From Graham of Claverhouse by Ian Maclaren

Safely ambuscaded, Henderson laid a hand firmly on the child’s arm, resting it there for two or three seconds, as a sign of silence.

From The Backwoodsmen by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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

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 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

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

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