The provisions brought from Spain were inadequate; sorties were useless; the Indians fled from large parties and ambushed small ones.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
sorties were continually looked for, and however these might terminate, the non-combatants felt that they must be equally the sufferers.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
I have studied the records of the Romans, of their wars with the Gauls and other peoples, and I know that their greatest trouble was not in defeating armies in the field but of overcoming the resistance of those who took refuge in fastnesses and harassed them continually by sorties and attacks.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty