What is "ambuscado"

Usage examples of "ambuscado".

I should have wished to have limited my story to Beaufort and his message, but as the council seemed to be intent upon hearing a full account of my journey, I told in as short and simple speech as I could the various passages which had befallen me--the ambuscado of the smugglers, the cave, the capture of the gauger, the journey in the lugger, the acquaintance with Farmer Brown, my being cast into prison, with the manner of my release and the message wherewith I had been commissioned.

So, as I said, he came up with his train to the gate, and laid his ambuscado for Captain Resistance within bow-shot of the town.

They had manned them both, and planted their ordinance for that present, and sudden alarum vvithout the gate, and also some troopes of small shot in Ambuscado vpon the hievvay side.

So, as I said, he came up with his train to the gate, and laid his ambuscado for Captain Resistance within bow-shot of the town.

My heroic nature, he daresaid, impelled me straight through the waiting lynch mobs and sundry ambuscadoes to assert my claim.