The group were active in the late 1980s and used to conduct daring ambuscades on mostly abusive police and local officials.
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In politics, as in war, we meet with certain ardent minds which never understand the utility of marches, counter marches, ambuscades, and affairs of outposts.
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The Kandyans often used these narrow paths to set up ambuscades, trapping advancing columns by suddenly felling trees to the front and rear.C. Gaston Perera. pp. 3–16.
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The many nights we spent in the smoky cavern of the prohibition era have impared our sense of smell to a degree that should enable us to bear up in crowded and airless ambuscades.
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Partisan bands became active all over Kottayam and harassed reinforcements and supply convoys. Same was the case in Wayanad where British troops that moved out of the safety of block-houses risked being way- laid by Kurichia bowmen. British suffered good loss in terms of men, ammunition and stores in these ambuscades.
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Nene Pimentel disputed the charges and was later released. Returning home, he was mobbed by thousand of his supporters upon his arrival at the pier of Cagayan de Oro. Later, he was again arrested for allegedly engaging in ambuscades. His supporters contributed centavos and pesos in small denomination to bail him out.
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While the rest of the group took cover, he crept up to the rear of the emplacement, killed two occupants, and captured the remaining three. As the group continued on, clearing ambuscades, sniper posts, and gun emplacements, Wold volunteered four more times to single-handedly attack machine gun nests. He was successful each time except the last.Kenamore, p.
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The house was burned and Lieutenant Craven encountered no one in the thicket or additional houses. The creek at Mulege. The Americans took the hill, the Mexicans retreating beyond the stream, and from several ambuscades, fired upon the Americans' left flank. The American forces responded with several volleys of return fire which forced the Mexicans to flee up the creek.
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At about 00:10 hr, a third attack was made, with being sunk and being damaged, with none of the five torpedoes fired by the British destroyers, including Ambuscades last, striking home.Campbell 1998, pp. 288–289. By now, the flotilla had completely split up, but was to lose a fourth ship when Ardent, mistaking the German ships for British ships, was sunk by fire from German battleships.Campbell 1998, pp. 290–291.
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Hirtuleius became Sertorius's most trusted lieutenant during what was to become the war on the Iberian peninsula. In 80 BC, while Sertorius was consolidating his power in Hispania Ulterior, Hirtuleius was sent against Marcus Domitius Calvinus, the governor of Hispania Citerior. Hirtuleius resorted to guerrilla warfare, falling back before the enemy and using ambuscades and raids to wear them down, eventually, he defeated Calvinus at ConsuburaSouth of Toledo. on the banks of the Anas.
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On May 21 Aguinaldo issued a proclamation asking the nation to rally behind him in a second attempt to obtain independence. Revolutionary leaders promptly stepped up their raids and ambuscades on Spanish garrisons in Central Luzon, capturing more than 5,000 prisoners. By the end of May, the whole of central and southern Luzon, except Manila, was practically in Filipino hands. Aguinaldo promptly established a Dictatorial Government on May 24, with himself as Supremo (supreme commander) and proclaimed Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898.
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144 Some of these forts are known today – Metellinum (Medellin), Castra Caecilia (Cáceres), Viccus Caecilius and Caecilina. This strategy might have worked on an inferior opponent, but Sertorius kept up a relentless campaign of hit-and-run attacks and ambuscades slowly wearing down Metellus who was soon forced to call for help.Philip Matyszak, Sertorius and the struggle for Spain, pp 82-84; Plutarch, Life of Sertorius, 13. Lucius Manlius, the governor of Gallia Transalpina, tried to come to Metellus's aid, he marched with three legions and 1,500 cavalry across the Pyrenees.
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By this time, it was clear that Ambuscades re-occurring mechanical problems meant that the ship was not fit for convoy escort duties, and Ambuscade was assigned target duties.English 1993, pp. 12–13. In late 1942, Ambuscade became a trials ship for anti- submarine weapons and sensors, being fitted with the experimental 'Parsnip' anti-submarine mortar in an attempt to provide a more capable ahead-firing anti-submarine weapon than 'Hedgehog'. 'Parsnip' was not a success, and in May 1943, Ambuscade was fitted with the prototype installation of the 'Squid' anti-submarine mortar and its associated depth-finding Type 147 sonar.
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After one hour, the British had gained the upper hand, damaging the hull and rigging of the corvette. As Ambuscade came off the stern of Bayonnaise in an attempt to rake her, one of the British frigate's starboard 12-pounders burst. The explosion destroyed Ambuscades boats, left 13 of her sailors dead and wounded, and confused the crew. Bayonnaise attempted to take advantage of the confusion to escape south, but Ambuscade gave chase again and caught up with the corvette around 3 PM. As the frigate sailed on the port side of the corvette on a parallel course, overtaking her, Bayonnaise backed sail and turned hard to port, ramming Ambuscade.
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Bey split his forces in two, and tasked first army with penetration of Cetinje and second army with suppressing rebellious forces around Spuž. Both armies failed, as the first one was stopped in Lješkopolje again without reaching Cetinje, and the second one was defeated when Rufim personally led a side attack of 700 Katunjani to the aid of Piperi, Bjelopavlići and Rovčani forces which were already engaging enemy around the village of Kosov lug. Six months were occupied in skirmishes and ambuscades, and it was not till 10 September 1613, that the two armies met on the spot where Staniša had been defeated more than a century before. The Montenegrins, although assisted by some neighbouring tribes, were completely outnumbered.
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In June 1932, Ambuscade was taken out of reserve and joined the Home Fleet, serving in Irish waters. In December 1932, Ambuscade was deployed as a Tender to , the torpedo school, being used for training and trials. Ambuscade continued this duty until February 1937, when the poor condition of the ship's turbines resulted in a refit at Portsmouth, with the turbines requiring replacement. Ambuscades refit continued until May 1940, while when she re-entered service with the Sixteenth Destroyer Flotilla based at Harwich, receiving a new pennant number, I38. On 10 June, Ambuscade took part in the attempt to evacuate troops of the 51st (Highland) Division from Saint-Valery- en-Caux (Operation Cycle).
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This > light-armed people, relying more on their activity than on their strength, > cannot struggle for the field of battle, enter into close engagement, or > endure long and severe actions...though defeated and put to flight on one > day, they are ready to resume the combat on the next, neither dejected by > their loss, nor by their dishonour; and although, perhaps, they do not > display great fortitude in open engagements and regular conflicts, yet they > harass the enemy by ambuscades and nightly sallies. Hence, neither oppressed > by hunger or cold, not fatigued by martial labours, nor despondent in > adversity, but ready, after a defeat, to return immediately to action, and > again endure the dangers of war. > \--The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis translated by Sir Richard > Colt-Hoare (1894), p.511 The Welsh were revered for the skills of their bowmen.
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Accordingly, after the expression of many various opinions, it > was agreed to attack the Alamannic horde by way of the Ten Cantons [ Dieuze] > with closed ranks; and the soldiers went on in that direction with unusual > alacrity. And because the day was misty and overcast, so then even objects > close at hand could not be seen, the enemy, aided by their acquaintance with > the country, went around by way of a crossroad and made an attack on the two > legions bringing up the rear of the Caesar's army. And they would nearly > have annihilated them, had not the shouts that they suddenly raised brought > up the reinforcements of our allies. Then and thereafter, thinking that he > could cross neither roads nor rivers without ambuscades, Julian was wary and > hesitant, Following this Julian went on to fight and win the Battle of Brumath (Brocomagus).
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In 778 Roland, the warden of the Breton March, had accompanied Charlemagne on his campaign into the Iberian peninsula across the Western Pyrenees. Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, mentions in his Vita Karoli Magni a fatal event involving Vasconian raiders who laid an ambush by hiding in the woods on top of a high mountain while Frankish troops were crossing the mountain pass. Subsequently, the raiders attacked the rear guards of the Frankish army on their way down into the valley.That region is well adapted for ambuscades by reason of the thick forests that cover it; and as the army was advancing in the long line of march necessitated by the narrowness of the road, the Gascons, who lay in ambush [778] on the top of a very high mountain, attacked the rear of the baggage train and the rear guard in charge of it, and hurled them down to the very bottom of the valley [at Roncevalles, later celebrated in the Song of Roland].
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