torum, etc Ampl. Collectio, of the latter. — Lan-
don, Eccl. Diet, i, 306 ; Hoefer, Biog. Generate, ii, 343.
Ambrose, Autpert, a French Benedictine monk, and abbot of St. Vincent de Voltorne, about 760, in the time of Pope Paul, and Desiderius, king of the Lom- bards, as he himself tells us. He died July 19, 778. He wrote a Commentaries in Apocalypsin (Col. 1536, fob), also published in the Bibl. Patrum. xiii, 403, and some other works, viz., Commentaries on the Psalms and Song of Solomon, the Combat, betivecn the Virtues and Vices, which goes under the names of St. Ambrose, and is inserted in the works of Augustine; a Homily on the Leading of the Holy Gospel (among the works of St. Ambrose), and another on the Assumption of the Virgin (which is the eighteenth of Augustine de Sanc- tis), and others. Mabillon gives as his, the Lives of SS. Pablo, Tvto, an, I Vaso, together with the History of his Monastery.— Cave, Hist. Lit. i, 631 ; Hist. Lit. de la France, t. iv ; Landon, Eccl. Diet, i, 305.
Ambrose, Isaac, a Presbyterian minister, born in Lancashire, 1591, and educated at Oxford. He officiated ao minister in Preston, and afterward at Garstang in Lancashire, from which he was ejected hi
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1662 for non-conformity. He was a man of great Wood), Order of, monks of. The origin of the or- learning, which he adorned by sincere and ardent piety, der is known from a bull of Gregory XI, addressed in He died in 1674. Amid the labors of an active min- i 1375 to the monks of the church of St. Ambrose with- istry he found time to prepare several works of prac- ' out the walls of Milan ; from which it appears that Ideal religion for the press. He was the author of these monks had for a long time bee*i subject to a The First, Middle, and Last Things, viz. Regeneration, prior, but had no fixed rule, in consequence of which Sanctification, ami Meditations on Life, Death, and the pope, at the prayer of the archbishop, had ordered Judgment, etc. But his book entitled Looking unto them to follow the rule of Augustine, permitted them Jems is the one which has most of all received, and : to assume the above name, to recite the Ambrosian longest retained, the award of popular favor. Both office, and directed that their prior should be confirm- these, with other writings, may be found in his Com- j ed by the archbishop of Milan. They afterward had plete Works (Dundee, 1759, fob). many establishments in different parts of Italy ; but
Ambrose, archbishop of Moscow, with his family ' they were independent of one another until Eugenins name Andrew Sertis-Kamensky, was born at Nejine, j IV' m lini un,ted them lnto one congregation, and in the government of Tchernigoff, in 1708. After | exempted them from the jurisdiction of the ordinaries, studying at the seminary of St. Alexander Nevski, he making the convent at Milan the chief of the order, became, in 1735, one of its teachers. In 1739 he en- ] In lo'<J the3r applied to St. Charles Borromeo to aid tered a monastic order, and, according to custom, | them ™ the reformation of their houses, whose disci- changed his Christian name, assuming that of Am- I P]»»e had become somewhat relaxed. In 1589 Sixtus brose. After being for some time prefect of studies at the academy of St. Alexander, he was transferred as archimandrite to the convent of New Jerusalem at Vosnecensk, and, in 1758, was consecrated bishop, first of Pereiaslavl, and later, of the diocese of Krusitzy, near Moscow. He was appointed archbishop of Mos- cow in 1761, and retained his dignity until his death. He had also been from 1748 a member of the Holy Synod. Ambrose displayed great zeal in the service of his Church. He established a number of new
V united them to the congregation of St. Barnabas ; but in 1650 both were dissolved by Pope Innocent X. — Helyot, ed. Migne, i, 203.
Ambuscade and Ambush (Heb. **X, arab', to lie in wait), in military phraseology, are terms used promiscuously, though it is understood that the first more properly applies to the act, and the second to the locality of a stratagem which consists mainly in the concealment of an army, or of a detachment, where .- , the enemv, if he ventures, in ignorance of the meas- churches and monasteries, and distinguished himself ' ..,: . .. . ,.. .- . ,, , . ,
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at a disadvantage, and liable to be totally defeated.
The principles which must guide the contrivers of an ambuscade have been nearly the same in all ages; embracing concealment from the observation of an enemy so as to create no suspicion ; a position of ad- vantage in case of being attacked by superior forces ; and having the means of retreating, as well as of is- suing forth to attack, without impediment, when the proper moment is arrived. The example of Joshua at the capture of Ai (Josh, viii) shows the art to have been practised among the Jews on the best possible principles. The failure of a first attempt was sure to