In 490 BC, he sent a naval task force under Datis and Artaphernes across the Aegean, to subjugate the Cyclades, and then to make punitive attacks on Athens and Eretria.

* Chinese warlords formes a coalition force and launches a punitive campaign against Chancellor Dong Zhuo.

The German force arrived too late to take part in the fighting, but undertook several punitive expeditions to the countryside against the Boxers.

In 1775, after a Moro raid on Zamboanga, Capitan Vargas led a punitive expedition against Jolo, but his force was repulsed.

An Anglo-Dutch force, led by Admiral Lord Exmouth, carried out a punitive expedition, the August 1816 bombardment of Algiers.

The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a United Kingdom force of 1, 200 under Admiral Sir Harry Rawson in response to the defeat of a previous British-led invasion force under Acting Consul General James Philips ( which had left all but two men dead ).

Unfortunately, their fear that their creators would send a punitive force to destroy them was too great and eventually these pioneering Abhs decided to launch a preemptive strike to destroy their creators ' space metropolis.

* June – John I of Castile invades Portugal once again and in force, after the defeat of a punitive expedition in Trancoso

In the same year, regional officials and warlords around the country formed a coalition force and launched a punitive campaign against Dong Zhuo.

Following the annexation of Kakheti, in 1105, David routed a Seljuk punitive force at the Battle of Ertzukhi, leading to momentum that helped him to secure the key fortresses of Samshvilde, Rustavi, Gishi, and Lorri between 1110 and 1118.

On May the 4th, following the last ambush of a Legion convoy, a joint force of British, Arab Legion and irregular troops launched a major punitive attack on Kfar Etzion.

After a minor skirmish with Polish-Lithuanian rearguard under Stelnicki, the Russian punitive expeditionary force of some 1500 officers and soldiers entered the town and proceeded to burn the town and massacre the civilian population.

In retaliation, a year later, a Ming punitive force of about 100, 000 men, which included Korean and Yehe troops, approached Nurhaci's Manchus along four different routes.

* Punishment: the punitive use of force against another state in response to their pursuit of a given policy.

Betong was re-occupied, and the force under Prayoon began taking punitive actions against the local Chinese, who were believed to have greeted Krohcol flying the Union Jack as well as the Kuomintang flag.

King Ladislaus IV dispatched a punitive force, and Litovoi was killed during the battle against the Hungarian army.

In a punitive expedition for killing coastal carriers, a colonial police force burned Biangai villages, destroyed their gardens, and killed numerous young men.

The battle, which the American force won while killing Brulé women and children as well as warriors, was a punitive expedition for the so-called " Grattan Massacre " in August 1854 and for raids by Lakota in its wake during the year following.

On the defeat of Archil, Racha was overrun and plundered by an Ottoman punitive force.

A punitive expedition into the Afghan lands led by George ’ s nephew, Kay Khusrau, ended in October 1711 disastrously with his death and the destruction of nearly his entire Persian force of 30, 000.

The Egba, under the leadership of Lishabi, massacred the Ilari stationed in their area and drove off an Oyo punitive force.

The Battle of Atoleiros () took place on 6 April 1384, between a Portuguese force and a punitive expedition from Castile sent by John I.

When the Provisional Government sent out punitive detachments it only enraged the peasants.

The 16th century Somali-Portuguese wars in East Africa meant that geopolitical tensions would remain high and the increased contact between Somali sailors and Ottoman corsairs worried the Portuguese who sent a punitive expedition against Mogadishu under Joao de Sepuvelda, which was unsuccessful.

He sent the Duke of Alba to tell Catherine to scrap the Edict of Amboise and to find punitive solutions to the problem of heresy.

The Portuguese sent a punitive expedition against Bacan but it failed, and instead the Portuguese Governor Galvão challenged Bacan's sultan to a duel to determine who was to be subservient to whom.

In 78-76 BC, the Romans sent a punitive expedition over the Danube in an attempt to overawe the Iazyges.

Batu sent a punitive expedition under Nevruy.

In 1293 Toqta sent a punitive expedition led by his brother, Tudaun ( Dyeden in Russian chronicles ), to Russia and Belarus to punish those stubborn subjects.

In 1377, a few years after Gajah Mada's death, Majapahit sent a punitive naval attack against a rebellion in Palembang, contributing to the end of the Srivijayan kingdom.

Batu sent a punitive expedition under Nevrui.

Majapahit took this action as rebellion and sent massive punitive naval expedition to Palembang.

Hone Heke Ngapua had previously sent a telegraph to Hone Toia, advising him to disband his people, withdraw peacefully and to petition parliament, this was seen as a wise move by Heke considering such acts as the 1863 Suppression of Rebellion Act which suspended habeas corpus and introduced martial law into disturbed districts and the New Zealand Settlements Act which provided for the punitive confiscation of ' rebel natives ' land.

Meanwhile, in the northwestern portion of the empire, Batu's successor and younger brother Berke sent punitive expeditions to Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland.

Officials from the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies responded quickly to the attacks on Swansea ; on June 28 they sent a punitive military expedition that destroyed the Wampanoag town at Mount Hope ( modern Bristol, Rhode Island ).

When the Tokugawa bakufu sent a second punitive expedition against Chōshū in August 1864, Satsuma remained neutral.

Alabama law denied a public officer recovery of punitive damages in a libel action brought on account of a publication concerning their official conduct unless they first make a written demand for a public retraction and the defendant fails or refuses to comply, so Sullivan sent such a request.

Without consulting the Connecticut colonists, Massachusetts, in August, sent a punitive expedition of ninety men under John Endicott to Block Island with instructions to kill every Niantic warrior and capture the woman and children, who would be valuable as slaves.

After Francisco Villa's cross-border raids into New Mexico President Wilson sent a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue the raiders.

Brainiac sent the mental image of the New Gods captured to Superman in order to taunt him, and he also sent his " headship " ( a green-hued variant of the pre-Crisis skull-like ship ) to Earth in a punitive expedition.

The khan sent a punitive expedition which defeated Andrey near Pereslavl.

Enraged by this humiliation and the disgrace committed against his envoy and his patience, in late 1292 the great Kublai Khan sent a massive 1, 000 war junks for a punitive expedition that would arrived off the coast of Tuban, Java in early 1293.

His first act was to order a punitive attack on Naggaroth to avenge Aethis's murder: unfortunately, the army he sent was massacred as it made landfall ( an event the Druchii fondly refer to as " The Day of Blood "), and word of its failure spread panic across Ulthuan.

A punitive expedition led by Severus ' son, Caracalla, was sent out with the purpose of slaughtering everyone it encountered from any of the northern tribes.