sortie's Usage Examples:

A sortie (from the French word meaning exit or from Latin root surgere meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an.

The sortie on Mestre occurred during the revolutionary year of 1848 on October 27.

The Belgian forces in Antwerp conducted three sorties in late September and early October, which interrupted German plans to.

Pup 1918 - Sopwith Camel 1944 - Avro Lancaster I and III The following sortie details are taken from the operations record book for 189 sqdn.

The apparent Loyalist victory was significantly affected by a sortie from Fort Stanwix in which the Loyalist camps were sacked, damaging morale.

siege, a postern could act as a sally port, allowing defenders to make a sortie on the besiegers.

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, all five aircraft are Hawker Hunter aircraft on one sortie on 7 September 1965.

the abortive attack on Convoy PQ 17 and conducted Operation Wunderland, a sortie into the Kara Sea.

This photo reconnaissance sortie returned with 7000 photographs which helped with planning air raids on Japan.

De Bussy's additional reinforcements now had enough men to launch a sortie on the British siege works.

The defenders repulsed the attackers, and when they withdrew, made a sortie and pursued them.

end of the day the US aircraft from the three squadrons had flown 163 sorties.

Synonyms:

flying; flight;

Antonyms:

source; sink; activation;