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<p>A <b>sortie</b> (from the French word meaning <a href="page.php?w=wikt%3Asortie">''exit''</a>, from <a href="page.php?w=Latin">Latin</a> root surgere meaning to "rise up") is a deployment or dispatch of one military unit, be it an <a href="page.php?w=aircraft">aircraft</a>, <a href="page.php?w=ship">ship</a>, or troops, from a <a href="page.php?w=strongpoint">strongpoint</a>. The term originated in <a href="page.php?w=siege_warfare">siege warfare</a>.</p>

<p><big>In siege warfare</big></p>
<p>In <a href="page.php?w=siege_warfare">siege warfare</a>, the</p><p>
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