Brief excursion of one military unit from a strongpoint
For other uses, see Sortie (disambiguation).
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A sortie (from the French word meaning exit or 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.[1] The term originated in siege warfare.
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