Sentence examples for raiding forces from inspiring English sources

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.

But it would have been hard to convince the American civilians who suffered what amounted to terrorist attacks by ruthless British raiding forces between 1812 and 1814 that the conflict was either limited or explicable.

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

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

By 1916, these raiding forces were causing serious concern in the Admiralty as the proximity of Bruges to the British coast, to the troopship lanes across the English Channel and for the U-boats, to the Western Approaches; the heaviest shipping lanes in the World at the time.

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.

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.

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