
thumb|310px|A Venetian sortie during the Siege of Candia (1668)
thumb|310px|A Venetian sortie during the Siege of Candia (1668)
A sortie (from the French word meaning exit, from Latin root surgere meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an aircraft, ship, or troops, from a strongpoint. The term originated in siege warfare.
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