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ambush
Sign in to savethumb|right|upright=1.3|French royalist rebels preparing an ambush during the War in the Vendée (The Ambush by [[Évariste Carpentier, 1889)]] thumb|General Edward Braddock|Braddock's troops ambushed and decimated by the French and Indians in 1755 thumb|Depiction of a Weenen massacre|Zulu attack on a [[Boer camp in February 1838]] thumb|1842 retreat from Kabul|Massacre of Elphinstone's army during the [[First Anglo-Afghan War in 1842]] thumb|Ambush of Polish Partisan (military)|partisans against Russian forces during the [[January Uprising, 1863]]
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- History
- Arabia during Muhammad's era
- Procedure
- Planning
- Viet Cong ambush techniques
- Ambush criteria
- Ambush units
- Command posts
- Recon methods
- See also
- References
thumb|right|upright=1.3|French royalist rebels preparing an ambush during the War in the Vendée (The Ambush by [[Évariste Carpentier, 1889)]] thumb|General Edward Braddock|Braddock's troops ambushed and decimated by the French and Indians in 1755 thumb|Depiction of a Weenen massacre|Zulu attack on a [[Boer camp in February 1838]] thumb|1842 retreat from Kabul|Massacre of Elphinstone's army during the [[First Anglo-Afghan War in 1842]] thumb|Ambush of Polish Partisan (military)|partisans against Russian forces during the [[January Uprising, 1863]]
An ambush is a surprise attack carried out by combatants waiting in a concealed (and typically well-defiladed) position against an approaching enemy individual or group. The concealed position itself or the concealed person(s) may also be called an "", and the chosen area to carry out the ambush is known as the kill zone or the trap.