Meanings of desperate sortie in English

Then I busied myself with final preparations for our desperate sortie.

In the meantime Hood's desperate sortie had struck north as far as Franklin, Tennessee.

Let us make a last desperate sortie, and see if we cannot drive the enemy from their position.

He lied to himself and said he would make another desperate sortie on the castle of the Comas company.

The final desperate sortie led by General Kusmanek at the head of the Twenty-third Division of the Honved precipitated the end.

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.

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.

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.