More recently locals repelled an incursion by the Taliban.
Many cited a potential incursion by Turkish soldiers into northern Iraq.
Last year an incursion by a Chinese submarine into Japanese waters drew a rare Chinese apology.
Themes "of incursion", by "unnameable forces, geological sentience or temporary anomaly", will, apparently, "recur throughout".
To an outsider, this seemed an incursion by Al Qaeda stragglers.
Since then, there has been no known ground incursion by the Americans.
In December, a border incursion by Iranian soldiers into Iraq incited a standoff in Maysan Province, north of Basra Province.
It followed a Libyan incursion by King Idris in 1954, unsuccessfully probing the possibility of taking over the Aouzou Strip.
A large-scale incursion by the Danes of Northumbria ended in their crushing defeat at Tettenhall in 910.
Last year Nicaragua and Costa Rica almost came to blows over a border incursion by a Nicaraguan river-dredging party.
Confusion swirled on Monday over reports of an incursion by United States forces into Pakistani territory in South Waziristan.
