Word: ambushings
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Suddenly from the rocks behind and above came the smash of rifle fire. Soldiers fell. Hastily the French commander flung out a skirmish line, halted the advance. His little patrol was completely ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule...
...disapproval: he had neither riches nor pride of family, his relatives lived vaguely in Surrey, and that, thought Aunt Myra, would never do. Lois, for her part, loved, but did not bestir herself to contradict her aunt. When a few days later the subaltern, on patrol, was shot from ambush, Aunt Myra thought it sad, and continued her teas. Lois pondered, to no avail, and went abroad to get on with her French. But that was their last bland September; by the next, revolutionary incendiaries had laid fiery waste to Danielstown...
Arthur Richman, Manhattan playwright, married Madeleine Marshall, U. S. actress, three years ago, in London after she had appeared in his play Ambush, Playwright Richman last month completed The Hungry Wife, last week inserted this public notice in Manhattan newspapers. A similar notice was inserted in London papers by Lord Ashley, heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury. His wife (Sylvia Hawkes) was also an actress...
...customary thing took place. A score of armed men stepped out of ambush. The deputies were ordered to move on, which they did. Then the fusillade, the guilty silence, the "discovery" of two stiff black shapes several hours later...
...family until the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Being an ardent sympathizer with the patriot cause, he received word on April 19, 1775, of the battle of Lexington. He gathered together three friends and rode with them, armed and provisioned, to the North Cambridge turnpike, where he prepared an ambush for the returning red-coats...