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The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.
In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.
Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.
* 1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
This was in retaliation for a raid led by the Welsh rulers Gruffydd ap Rhydderch, Rhys ap Rhydderch, and Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.
Alexios was able to secure much of the coastal regions by sending peasant soldiers to raid the Seljuq camps, but these victories were unable to stop the Turks altogether.
After a few centuries, following an incident where the Goths ' women successfully fended off a raid by a neighboring tribe, while the menfolk were off campaigning against Pharaoh Vesosis, the women formed their own army under Marpesia and crossed the Don, invading Asia.
* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
* 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward the Elder and Earl Aethelred of Mercia.
* 1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4, 000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover, the survivors are massacred by Nazis.
One memory of his youth was listening to a record by black pianist Jimmy Yancey during a German air raid.
The poem deals with legends, was composed for entertainment, and does not separate between fictional elements and real historic events, such as the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia.
For example, the study found that people who believe Osama Bin Laden was captured alive by Americans are likely to also believe that Bin Laden was actually killed prior to the 2011 raid.
In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.
The history of this newspaper rivalry and the raid appearance of comic strips in most major American newspapers is discussed by Ian Gordon.
Internally, the Taiping Rebellion ( 1851 – 1864 ), a quasi-Christian religious movement led by the " Heavenly King " Hong Xiuquan, would raid roughly a third of Chinese territory for over a decade until they were finally crushed in the Third Battle of Nanking in 1864.
Concurrently, during a military operation in World War II, following a German air raid on the Italian harbour of Bari, several hundred people were accidentally exposed to mustard gas, which had been transported there by the allied forces to prepare for possible retaliation in the event of German use of chemical warfare.
A group of " Mabden " ( men ) led by the savage Earl Glandyth-a-Krae raid the family castle and slaughter everyone with the exception of Corum, who escapes.
Lübecker Totentanz by Bernt Notke ( around 1463, destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942 ).
On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.
However, along the long border with its neighbour Colombia, relations have been strained mainly due to a cross-border raid by Colombian forces on FARC guerrillas.

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Paul Davis says the core of Charles's army was a professional infantry which was both highly disciplined and well motivated, " having campaigned with him all over Europe ", buttressed by levies that Charles basically used to raid and disrupt his enemy, and gather food for his infantry.
Paul Davis, another modern historian who addresses both sides in the debate over whether or not this Battle truly determined the direction of history, as Watson claims, or merely was a relatively minor raid, as Cardini writes, says " whether Charles Martel saved Europe for Christianity is a matter of some debate.
The Jameson Raid ( 29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896 ) was a botched raid on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic carried out by a British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen over the New Year weekend of 1895 – 96.
Major Gen. Uzal Girard Ent, who had led the August, 1943, raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploesti, chose Col. Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a combat force to deliver a new type of explosive device that is so powerful, its full potential was unknown.
The film is accurate historically with only a few minor exceptions, mostly derived from Paul Brickhill's book, which itself was written when much detail about the raid was not yet in the public domain:
Thereupon Pretorius, aided by Paul Kruger, conducted a raid into the Free State territory.
The raid on these dams in May 1943 ( Operation Chastise ) was immortalised in Paul Brickhill's 1951 book The Dam Busters and the 1955 film of the same name.
John Paul Jones led a naval raid upon the town in 1778 during the American War of Independence ; it was the last invasion of England by some definitions.
Lee Jong was also injured during the raid, leading Jack to force doctors at CTU who had been operating on Paul Raines to sacrifice him in order to save Lee, much to Audrey's dismay.
Paul and Chani's first child, Leto II ( not to be confused with their later son, Leto Atreides II ), is killed as an infant in a Corrino raid on their home in the deep desert.
Yardbird II ( 42-5620 ), piloted by 1st Lt. Paul S. Tippet ( 360th Bombardment Squadron ), was shot down by two German fighter aircraft over the North Sea, returning from an aborted raid over Embden, on 2 October 1943, with all eleven aboard killed in action.
Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm that the British garrison in Boston was setting out to raid the town of Concord and arrest rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
Two of the 27 people who were part of the 1981 NRA raid at Kabamba that began the war were Tutsi refugees: Fred Rwigema and Paul Kagame, who had grown up together in Kahunge refugee camp and were both active members of RANU.
The Paul Lorence web blog ( posted above ) was started in 2005 to get the word out around the 20th anniversary of the raid.
Keeping a low profile Down Under, Paul Kelly periodically emerges with albums that raid the storehouse of critical praise, then he retreats to mine poetic gold ".
Mousehole, like Penzance, Newlyn, and Paul, was destroyed in the 1595 raid on Mount's Bay by Spaniard Carlos de Amésquita, the only surviving building being the ' Keigwin Arms ', a local pub.
* August-A particularly violent gun battle between the Eastman and the Five Points Gangs, over an attempted raid by the Five Pointers of a local Rivington Street stuss game, eventually involves over a hundred gangsters ( including the Gophers who fired at both the Eastmans and Five Pointers alike ) causing Tammany Hall to force leaders Monk Eastman and Paul Kelly to make peace.
At the end of World War I, when it consisted of a handful of government offices and a dozen stores, it was evacuated by its British population of a couple of dozen in the face of a surprise raid from the north-east by German East African forces under General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.
Paul was one of the communities along with Mousehole, Newlyn, and Penzance to be destroyed in the Spanish raid of 1595 carried out by Carlos de Amésquita.
Chase joined Ranger as a seaman in 1777 and served during John Paul Jones ' daring raid into British waters.

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