ambuscade

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

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

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

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The ambuscade had been waiting fifteen days in the savannah, expecting Morgan.

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

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

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

He performed well his duties in that position, but was killed on the day preceding the battle of Tupelo, the division to which he belonged having been ambuscaded by Forrest's troops.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom

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

But since they rode straight for the hills, he feared that if he followed he himself would be ambuscaded.

From The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia by A. F. Mockler Ferryman

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

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

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

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