We got it single-handed.

Boyce put up the most amazing bluff that has ever happened in this war.

He crawls out by himself, without anybody knowing--it was a pitch-black night--gets through the barbed wire, heaven knows how, up to the house; lays a sentry out with his life-preserver; gives a few commands to an imaginary company; and summons the occupants--two officers and fifteen men--to surrender.
Thinking they are surrounded, they obey like lambs, come out unarmed, with their hands up, officers and all, and are comfortably marched off in the dark, as prisoners into our trenches.

They say that when the German officers discovered how they had been done, they foamed so hard that we had to use empty sandbags as strait waistcoats.
"Now, it's picturesque, of course, and being picturesque, it has flown from mouth to mouth.

But it's true.Verb.