sortie

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.