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Then I busied myself with final preparations for our desperate sortie.
Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
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In the meantime Hood's desperate sortie had struck north as far as Franklin, Tennessee.
Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray
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Let us make a last desperate sortie, and see if we cannot drive the enemy from their position.
French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
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He lied to himself and said he would make another desperate sortie on the castle of the Comas company.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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The final desperate sortie led by General Kusmanek at the head of the Twenty-third Division of the Honved precipitated the end.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
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A desperate sortie was made on March 28, the twenty-third day of the siege, with such success that Dessalines precipitately retired, abandoning his stores.
Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future
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The horror-struck citizens thought that the Spaniards were upon them at last; the Spaniards imagined the noise to indicate, a desperate sortie of the citizens.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)
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Popular imagination has been thrilled by the story of the last desperate sortie, which will take a high place in the history of modern war.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...