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A Baffled Ambuscade

Ambrose Bierce

First published November 1906
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Soldier-Folk

Three soldiers are stationed as lookouts. Two of them report that the third has become frightened and run away. But then they see that man standing in the road waving the troops back. The next day, it becomes clear that he saved them from an ambush and has been killed (it isn't clear whether before or after he waved them back).

First published in Cosmopolitan (New York), November 1906.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1906 Cover Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 1906 International Magazine Company MAGAZINE 37|37.2
1910 Can Such Things Be? The Neale Publishing Company Collection 356
1918 Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright Collection 356
1924 Can Such Things Be? Albert & Charles Boni Collection 356
1970 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce Doubleday Collection 274
November 1971 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: The World of War and the World of Tall Tales Ballantine Books Collection 19
1984 Cover The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce University of Nebraska Press Collection 274
January 2002 Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Project Gutenberg Collection
May 2004 Cover Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories IndyPublish.com Collection |7
July 2012 Cover Ambrose Bierce: Masters of the Weird Tale Centipede Press Collection
May 2013 Cover Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories CreateSpace Collection