ambuscade

ambuscade;

noun; meaning an ambush. origin; 1580s, representing a borrowing of that French word after it had been Italianized. Ambuscadeis from French embuscade (16c.), Gallicized from Italian imboscata,literally "a hiding in the bush."

First chapter title for //The Unvanquished//. Foreshadow into incoming Union troops during the war.