Sentence examples for raiding force from inspiring English sources

In May 1541 his raiding force reached the river at a point south of what is now Memphis, Tennessee.

It remained unclear why he sought to pursue the raiding force aggressively rather than the accusations of prisoner abuse.

Formed by Captain David Stirling while he was in hospital in the second world war after a parachuting accident, the SAS was initially created as a desert raiding force to weaken Nazi general Erwin Rommel's North African logistics network, as well as hinder aircraft operations.

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Altogether, the raiding force contained 108 bombers and 150 fighters.

The size of the raiding force depended on the objective.

During the republic a squad of armed men, the famous Texas Rangers, was maintained to ride long distances quickly to repel or punish raiding forces.

To counter that, Bayezid tried to use Hungarian internal dissension to take Belgrade, without success, and raiding forces sent into Transylvania, Croatia, and Carinthia (present-day Kärnten state, Austria) were turned back.

The most obvious is population size decline, which reflects the cumulative effects of epidemic disease, slave raiding, forced labor tribute, frontier conflict casualties, and the often overlooked factor of fugitivism.

Small raiding forces bombed Cardiff, Bootle (in Liverpool), Leicester and Ipswich.

The Army and RAAF are also capable of defeating small raiding forces once they are detected.