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My grandfather, his father, was a WW1 ace and was on the sortie which downed the Red Baron.
Lieutenant-Colonel Abercromby, who had led the only serious sortie from Yorktown, chewed his sword in impotent rage.
Many ladies do not like to display their "sortie du soire" before a crowded room, and you will be keeping their escort waiting.
By September the enemy had opened their trenches round Perpignan, and Prignon was entrusted with a night sortie.
Bonaparte attacked Valetta, in Malta, and in a sortie the Maltese lost the standard of their order.
But the garrison made a sortie, seized the towers, destroyed them, and killed or captured the soldiers who manned them.
In a sortie Bohemond the crafty and brave was wounded; Tancred's and Godfrey's valor ended in repulse.
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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sortie, such as: raid, assault, charge, invasion, mission, and offense.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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