When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20, 000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward.

The refortified fortress should have made an excellent base for raiding northern Mercia, but the Mercians are recorded as having taken the drastic measure of destroying all crops and livestock in the surrounding countryside in order to starve the Danes out.

In early November, 400 British soldiers went to Lechmere's Point on a raiding expedition to acquire some livestock.

* trading with or raiding neighboring tribes for livestock and agricultural products.

The army was allowing raiding and stealing of livestock and capture of Navajo tribal members by other tribes and New Mexicans resulting in the enslavement of captives.

Rather, these files and reports actually suggest that the largest number of cattle raids occurred in parts of Dodoth County where no mention of Ik raiding livestock can be found in any of these documents.

In 1865 Black Hawk and the Ute started raiding the livestock and goods of the steadily encroaching settlers.

They are occasionally accused of killing livestock, especially cattle, and raiding corn fields.

When receipts were given instead, intended to be paid off after being federally sanctioned ( which did happen 12 years after the fact ), the Cayuse were enraged at Sutter and resorted to raiding livestock on their way back to Oregon.

When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20, 000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward.

In medieval Bedouin culture, ghazw was a form of limited warfare verging on brigandage that avoided head-on confrontations and instead emphasized raiding and looting, usually of livestock.

After discovering San Antonio in 1720, the Apache began repeatedly raiding the area to steal livestock, especially horses.

In the Spring of 1139, the emperor campaigned with success against Turks, probably nomadic Turkomans, who were raiding the regions along the Sangarios River ; hitting their means of subsistence by driving off their herds.

In 1837, while raiding the Kiowa horse herds along the North Fork of the Red River, a party of 48 Cheyenne Bowstring Men were discovered and killed by Kiowa and Comanche warriors.

Italy was lost, raiders from Moravia and Hungary were continually raiding his lands, and Lotharingia was in revolt against Zwentibold.

After nearly 20 years of slavish adherence to the Roman Senate's dictats, Philip had been goaded beyond endurance by the incessant and devastating raiding of the Dardani, a warlike Thraco-Illyrian tribe on his northern border, which his treaty-limited army was too small to counter effectively.

According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

The campaign was successful and raiding by the Alamanni ceased temporarily.

In 1914 the island was visited by the German light cruiser SMS Emden half-way through its historic commerce raiding cruise during the first months of World War I.

In 711 an Islamic Berber and Arab raiding party, led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad, was sent to Iberia to intervene in a civil war in the Visigothic Kingdom.

At least as early as this period, troublesome Berber tribes, one of which was identified in Egyptian records as the Levu ( or " Libyans "), were raiding eastward as far as the Nile Delta and attempting to settle there.

What was different was the systematisation and organisation, a pattern yielding major benefits when the Zulu were dispatched on raiding missions.

Some historians argue that the large military establishment was a drain on the Zulu economy and necessitated continual raiding and expansion.

Al-Kamil retreated to the nearby fortress of al-Mansurah, but the crusaders remained in Damietta throughout 1219 and 1220, awaiting the arrival of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, while King John returned to Acre briefly to defend against al-Mu ' azzam, who was raiding the kingdom from Damascus in John's absence.

Being a classically educated Mandarin his blueprint for the Xiang Army was taken from a historical source — the Ming general Qi Jiguang who, because of the weakness of regular Ming troops, had decided to form his own " private " army to repel raiding Japanese pirates in the mid-16th century.

In the first years of the Republic, when warfare was mostly concentrated on raiding, it is uncertain if the full manpower of the legions was summoned at any one time.

The Carthaginian navy had been defeated in two major encounters by the Romans, but neither side was usually able to interdict the other from raiding each other's coasts.

It was in the 8th century that Scandinavians began to build ships of war and send them on raiding expeditions to initiate the Viking Age.

While the initial raiding groups were small, it is believed that a great amount of planning was involved.

Evidently believing the main Aragonese fleet was raiding down the coast, he hoped to destroy the blockading squadron and return to Naples before it returned.

With a total landmass of, and lacking any natural resources, other than the Bermuda cedar, the colonists applied themselves fully to the maritime trades, developing the speedy Bermuda sloop, which was well suited both to commerce and to commerce raiding.

Late in 269 he had travelled to Sirmium and was preparing to go to war against the Vandals, who were raiding in Pannonia.

There was much trench mortaring, mining and raiding by both sides and from January to May the Second Army had 20, 000 casualties.

Modern historians, using estimates of what the land was able to support, and what Martel could have raised from his realm and supported during the campaign, believe the total Muslim force, counting the outlying raiding parties, which rejoined the main body before Tours, badly outnumbered the Franks.

The fort was occasionally reoccupied by British raiding parties in the following years, but it no longer held a prominent strategic role in the war.

Many Roman legions had been defeated during a campaign against Germanic peoples raiding across the borders, while the emperor was focused primarily on the dangers from the Sassanid Persian Empire.

The four habitable planets are in a constant state of war, always raiding one another for resources unique to each planet.

In the summer of 1779 at Washington's direction, General John Sullivan carried out a scorched earth campaign that destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in central and upstate New York ; the Indians were British allies who had been raiding American settlements on the frontier.

* 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland ; Douglas is captured.

Pictish metalwork is found throughout Pictland and also further south ; the Picts appear to have a considerable amount of silver available, probably from raiding further south, or the payment of subsidies to keep them from doing so.

* July 22 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas is defeated by forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland ; Douglas is captured.

Yet the situation was soon stabilised ; by 1035, on the eastern frontier, Arab pirates who had been raiding were either captured or killed, the Byzantines had taken the Muslim fortress of Perkri, while the important fortress of Edessa was relieved after a prolonged siege, and eventually ceded back to the empire in 1037.

York Castle formed a key part of the city defences, with a military governor ; rural castles such as Goodrich could be used a bases for raiding and for control of the surrounding countryside ; larger castles, such as Windsor, became used for holding prisoners of war or as military headquarters.

Respect for the saint did not mean that Malcolm refrained entirely from raiding the north ; he was killed in 1093 while once more raiding Northumbria.

:“ Then the raiding army granted him ( Alfred ) hostages and great oaths that they would leave his kingdom and also promised him that their king ( Guthrum ) would receive baptism ; and they fulfilled it.

And three weeks later the king Guthrum came to him, one of thirty of the most honourable men who were in the raiding army, at Aller-and that is near Athelney-and the king received him at baptism ; and his chrism losing was at Wedmore .”

However, the alliance between the Ikhwan and the Al Saud collapsed when Ibn Saud forbade further raiding ; the remaining territories all had treaties with London.

Wiederholdt soon realized that this was more than a raiding party ; seeing other Hessians retreating from the outpost, he led his men to do the same.

Semmes ' command of CSS Sumter lasted a short six months, but during that time he ranged wide, raiding U. S. commercial shipping in both the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean ; his actions accounted for the loss of 18 merchant vessels, while always eluding pursuit by Union warships.

By January 1862 Sumter required a major overhaul ; Semmes attempted to have her repaired in neutral Gibraltar, but the arrival of pursuing Union warships ended her raiding career when they took up blockading stations.

from authentic memoirs ; with an introduction and notes where he argued that the raiding of Dahomean villages for slaves was saving them from the greater evil of being human sacrifices.

Oregon settlers complained that Modoc warriors roamed the countryside raiding the settlers ; they petitioned Meacham to return the Modoc to the Klamath Reservation.

With the threat of invasion in 1940, many War Office officials and senior British Army officers did not believe that sufficient men could be spared from the effort to rebuild the Army after the Battle of France to create an effective airborne force ; many believed that such a force would only have a nuisance raiding value and would not affect the conflict in any useful way.

The aqueduct was a significant distance from the Italian coast, making it unlikely that a sea – borne raiding party could reach it, and it was believed that it was too strongly constructed to be destroyed by aerial bombing ; as such, an airborne raid conducted by parachute troops was thought to be the ideal way to eliminate the aqueduct.

Quantrill's Raiders, after raiding Kansas in the Lawrence Massacre on August 21, 1863, killing 150 civilians, broke up in confusion ; Quantrill himself with a handful of followers moved on to Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed.

The Alpha in charge of the Hirogen raiding party had initially invaded Voyager in the hopes of obtaining holographic technology ; and, though he fell during the combat, Janeway delivered the technology to his successor.

The Mescaleros and the Navajo had a long tradition of raiding each other ; the two tribes had many disputes during their encampment.

Manne, who called the book ‘ one of the most implausible, ignorant and pitiless books about Australian history written for many years ’, himself summed up the case against Windschuttle, noting that Windschuttle's evidence for Aboriginal deaths is derived from a scholar, Plomley, who denied that any estimate for them could be made from the documentary record ; that a scrupulous conservative scholar, H. A. Willis, using exactly the same sources as Windschuttle, came up with a figure of 188 violent deaths, and another 145 rumoured deaths ; that Windschuttle's method excludes deaths of aborigines who were wounded, and later died ; that all surviving Aborigines transported by Robinson to Flinders ' Island bore marks of violence and gunshot wounds ' perpetrated on them by depraved whites '; that Windschuttle cannot deny that between 1803 and 1834 almost all Tasmanian Aborigines died, and the only evidence for disease as a factor before 1829 rests on a single conversation recorded by James Bonwick, and that Aboriginal women who lived with sealers did not, however, die off from contact with bearers of foreign disease ; that Windschuttle likened Aboriginal attacks on British settlers to ‘ modern-day junkies raiding service stations for money ’, whereas both colonial records and modern historians speak of them as highly ' patriotic ', attached to their lands, and engaged in a veritable war to defend it from settlement ; that by Windschuttle's own figures, the violent death rate of Aborigines in Tasmania in the 1820s must have been 360 times the murder rate in contemporary New York ; that Windschuttle shows scarce familiarity with period books, citing only 3 of the 30 books published on Van Diemen's land for the period 1803-1834, and with one of them confuses the date of the first visit by the French with the publication date of the volume that recounted their expedition ; that it is nonsensical to argue that a people who had wandered over an island and survived for 34, 000 years had no attachment to their land ; that Windschuttle finds no native words in 19th century wordlists for ' land ' to attest to such an attachment, when modern wordlists show 23 entries under ' country '.