Sentence examples for retaliatory expedition from inspiring English sources

Schofield feared that the ever-volatile Lane might raise his own force of Kansans to invade Missouri and wreak revenge; he wrote Governor Carney of his fear that a retaliatory expedition under Lane would not limit its "vengeance... to those who were actually guilty".

Dudley authorized the aging Indian fighter Benjamin Church to lead a retaliatory expedition against settlements in Acadia.

Brant and John Butler's son Walter organized a retaliatory expedition against Cherry Valley, which was the scene of a massacre in November.

He was unable, however, to stop a retaliatory expedition launched in 856 by Petronas against Melitene and Tephrike, which raided all the way to Amida, taking many prisoners before returning home.

Having settled matters in Khurasan, Harun returned to the west in November 805 and prepared a huge retaliatory expedition for 806, drawing men from Syria, Palestine, Persia, and Egypt.

The Natchez waged low-intensity warfare against the French over the following years, but retaliatory expeditions against Natchez refugees among the Chickasaw in 1730 and 1731 forced them to move on and live as refugees among the Creek and Cherokee tribes.

"I don't believe there will be retaliatory measures against existing U.S. exports to China," although some purchasing expeditions may be delayed, said Andy Xie, an Asia economist for Morgan Stanley.

authorizing retaliatory sanctions.

"They say it's retaliatory.

Retaliatory tariffs would be likely.

Where do you aim the retaliatory missiles?