Sentence examples for destructive raids from inspiring English sources
Destructive raids are recorded for Northumbria, East Anglia, Kent, and Wessex.
Here, too, the targets were supposed to be military and economic; even in the hugely destructive raids on Hamburg in 1943, Harris aimed at the working-class districts of the city because the elimination of workers would damage war production.
When Charles sought alliance with Edward III, French diplomats abandoned full sovereignty over Aquitaine, a reversal of policy too gratuitous to hold for long; its prompt revocation, with papal support, encouraged Edward's son, Edward the Black Prince, to undertake destructive raids through Languedoc in 1355.
Most of the conflict consisted of economically destructive raids against the other side's settlements.
Nevertheless, Mufarrij and his men followed this up with destructive raids across Palestine in 980.
As a result, Robert the Bruce had been able to regain the initiative in the war, reconquer lost territory, and stage destructive raids into the north of England.
John Hunt Morgan's destructive raid in July gave a preview of what Kentuckians could expect.
Aristotle, he points out, heard about a destructive raid on Rome by barbarian Gauls in about 390BC.
Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force (Luftwaffe) from July through September 1940, after the fall of France.
Following a series of destructive annual raids across Asia Minor by the Abbasid Caliphate, Irene seems to have secured a truce with the Caliph Harun al-Rashid in 798 in exchange for the annual payment of tribute, repeating the terms agreed for a three-year truce following Harun's first large-scale campaign in 782.
Following a series of destructive annual raids across Asia Minor by the Caliphate, Irene seems to have secured a truce with Harun al-Rashid in 798 in exchange for the annual payment of tribute, repeating the terms agreed for a three-year truce following Harun's first large-scale campaign in 782.
