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Re: more Eaton, anyone?

To: Erik Rauch <rauch>
Subject: Re: more Eaton, anyone?
From: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 20:21:04 +0000
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Mon, 15 Nov 93 15:03:54 EST.)
Reply-To: ucleaar <ucleaar@UCL.AC.UK>
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> #> #sortie (military)       (F) sortie      (G) Ausfall     (S) salida
> I think that "bartu" belongs in there someplace: a sortie, as the other 3
> languages show, is very explicitly an attack for the purpose of breaking
> >out< of something.

Isn't that a sally? I thought a sortie was an exploratory, as opposed to
all-out territory-capturing, attack. But I agree the other 3 lgs look
like they mean 'sally'.

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And                     KO JBOBANPEHO

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