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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ambuscade .
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Examples
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He tripped them up with facts, ambuscaded them with facts, bombarded them with broadsides of facts.
Chapter 1: My Eagle 2010
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Albinus was ambuscaded and destroyed with his entire army by the Boii as he was traversing a wooded mountain.
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Marsh and forty-six men, started for the scene of the uprising, and were ambuscaded by the Indians, twenty-eight of the men being killed and
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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He was certainly to blame for not using greater caution on his march, but the coolness and intrepidity which he exhibited when he found himself ambuscaded, aided materially in restoring order and in inspiring his men with courage.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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They walked as lightly as gymnasts, under a clear sky, through the fields, guided by the lights in the farmhouses, and at nine o'clock, having passed the frontier, they stumbled upon a post of Cossacks ambuscaded behind a hedge!
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Hence all the Gauls were ambuscaded and destroyed; many of the Romans also perished.
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The enemy had overheard the firing and ambuscaded us.
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The next morning they started early to the south, and toiled until eleven o'clock, to find themselves once more ambuscaded by the precipitous hills.
The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin
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But the worst feature was that they began firing their guns; so here we were in a deep lane from which there was no escape, and, as we afterwards ascertained, between the two halves of one of the most famous regiments in the British army, one ambuscaded by the other!
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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Sheldon's Horse ambuscaded a body of Hessians, only one of whom escaped.
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