Sentence examples for raids upon from inspiring English sources
Raids upon other peoples provided women who were kept as slave-wives; the male captives were tortured and killed.
Written records tell of Rus raids upon Constantinople and the northern Caucasus in the early 10th century.
In World War II, Japanese air raids upon the Calcutta docks caused damage and loss of life.
"Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury," he explained in his 1930 State of the Union address.
Schiff's poems are raids upon the jittery, troubled mindscape of a person whose good fortune hides incipient terror.
Igor's forces were completely defeated; all four princes were captured, and the Cumans were able to resume their raids upon Russian territory.
Some months ago Nikolai Ivanovich, a neighbour and friend, had embarked on a desperate raid upon a State granary.
Just as the two countries were struggling to reestablish some degree of equilibrium, in May 2011 the United States launched a unilateral raid upon Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hiding place.
We got very friendly … and made a raid upon a citizen's pantry where we captured a bucket of honey, a pitcher of sweet milk, and three or four biscuits.
In a raid upon England Archibald was captured by Percy at the Battle of Homildon Hill (September 1402); he fought with his captors against Henry IV at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403) and was taken prisoner by the English king.
On May 24 25 John Brown, a free-state partisan, led a small party in a raid upon some proslavery settlers on Pottawatomie Creek, murdered five men in cold blood, and left their gashed and mutilated bodies as a warning to the slaveholders.
