Sentence examples for it was ambushed from inspiring English sources

A year later, however, a huge expedition of 112 dromons and 75 pamphyloi with 43,000 men, that had sailed under Himerios against the Emirate of Crete, not only failed to recover the island, but on its return voyage, it was ambushed and comprehensively defeated by Leo of Tripoli off Chios (October 912).

Mr. Karzai's younger brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, said in a telephone interview that his convoy was on its way to Kabul, the capital, when it was ambushed at Sorobi by attackers using rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.

As the military column moved toward Ganjgal, it was ambushed by more than 50 insurgent fighters.

It was ambushed outside the village of Diyadin by a squad of village guards loyal to the government.

The last time the Iraqi army entered Tikrit last year it was ambushed in the middle of the city and forced to withdraw.

Their police car was cruising along one of the main roads in Rio de Janeiro's North Zone on Wednesday evening when it was ambushed.

During a transfer to a hospital in nearby Dnipropetrovsk he was kidnapped after the ambulance transporting him was ambushed as it tried to leave the city.

When a rescue party went to the scene, it, too, was ambushed.

The ROK 7th Infantry Regiment had now become the only surviving formation of the ROK 6th Infantry Division, but it too was ambushed by the PVA 118th Division on October 29 20 mile south of Kojang.

It says that at around noon on May 14th the alleged victim, a maid at the posh Sofitel Hotel, near Times Square, entered Mr Strauss-Kahn's room to clean it, where she was ambushed.

Hersey accompanied a Marine unit that was ambushed as it tried to cross a river.