Sentence examples for devastating raids from inspiring English sources

In the spring and summer of 1945, similarly devastating raids on over 60 Japanese cities occurred before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought World War II to an end.

For nearly two years, the British navy conducted devastating raids on small villages along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.

Gradenigo and his Venetians attacked and took the city, but William responded by sending his nephew the baron of Karytaina, Geoffroy de Bruyères, who recaptured Negroponte and launched devastating raids in Euboea.

Not a conventional invasion per se for the purpose of seizing large swathes of territory but something non-linear; namely, the establishment of forward operating bases for elite special ops, airborne, light infantry, and marine forces from several nations to conduct devastating raids along the internal road system and against other targets of opportunity.

Using firearms obtained from the Dutch in the Hudson River valley, they launched ever more devastating raids on Huronia.

The Comanche launched particularly devastating raids into north Texas (December 1863) and against a settlement at Elm Creek (October 13 , 1864.

On the Japanese side, the most indelible memories of the war lie in its denouement, the devastating air raids that culminated in the nuclear destruction of two cities.

The move followed increasingly devastating Israeli raids in what Israel called reprisal for the rocket attacks, which have not caused any fatalities.

Because Cologne was a target of repeated and devastating bombing raids by the Allies in World War II, there are few historic properties on the market, and many buildings erected in the aftermath of the war were of poor quality.

Yesterday, a human rights charity claimed Saudi Arabia had carried out a series of devastating bombing raids on Yemeni schools, Amnesty International claim five air strikes, conducted between August and October 2015, deliberately and repeatedly targeted schools, killing five civilians and wounding at least 14 – among them four children, and disrupting the education of an estimate 6,500 children.

Foreign-backed rebels have long demanded anti-aircraft weapons to offset the impact of devastating aerial raids by Syrian forces and, since September, also by Russian planes.