The O ' Rahilly was killed in a sortie from the GPO.

In view of the Ottoman fleet's superiority in speed and broadside weight, the Greek planners expected it to sortie from the straits early in the war.

Hoping to divert the French away, the English commander, Lord John Talbot, launched an attack from St. Pouair, on the northern end of Orleans, but it was held back by a French sortie.

The Naval Battle of Casablanca resulted from a sortie of French cruisers, destroyers, and submarines opposing the landings.

During his absence his brigade grew disheartened, particularly after a British sortie from Charleston, and there was reportedly a conspiracy to turn him over to the British.

Less than a week later, on Dec. 22, 1993, Whiteman again made history as it generated the first B-2 sortie from the base.

In total Saxe had 60 battalions and 110 squadrons, of which about 6, 000 were thrown into the bridgeheads at Calonne and Vaulx to secure possible lines of retreat and / or to guard against any sortie from Tournai in the rear of his position.

Similarly Frost believed that the distance from the Drop zones to the bridge and the long approach on foot was a " glaring snag " and was highly critical of the " unwillingness of the air forces to fly more than one sortie in the day was one of the chief factors that mitigated against success.

Finrod would have been killed or captured but for a sortie by Barahir, who descended from Dorthonion and rescued the elven lord, despite suffering heavy losses.

A sortie from Himring destroyed the remnants of the Orcs.

A British sortie from Canada in 1777 ended with the disastrous surrender of a British army at Saratoga.

As a result of those activities, at daybreak, a Cuban Air Force reconnaissance sortie over the Baracoa area was launched from Santiago de Cuba.

At about 12: 00, a FAR B-26 exploded due to heavy anti-aircraft fire from Blagar, and pilot Luis Silva Tablada ( on his second sortie ) and his crew of three were lost.

By this point, Cunningham's forces, which had been attempting to join up with Pridham-Wippell's, had launched a sortie of Fairey Albacore torpedo bombers from HMS Formidable at 09: 38.

During Compass, " the squadrons of Hurricanes, Lysanders, and Blenheims .. strove hard to keep pace the ground forces, often landing after a combat sortie at a more advanced strip than from which they had set out.

Two days after the landing a group of seven heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and four destroyers were sighted arriving in Rabaul from Truk, there to refuel and then sortie for a night battle against the supply ships in Empress Augusta Bay.

Behind Gibson's position, Colonel George Booth led a sortie from Nantwich by 600 musketeers which overcame Hunke's regiment and reached Acton churchyard, overrunning the Royalist artillery and wagon park.

However an unexpected sortie from the pā caused great alarm and further infuriated Despard.

During a four plane sortie by AT-6s flown from Luang Prabang's airfield during April 1961, Lieutenant Khampanh of the RLAF downed a Soviet Ilyushin Il-4 of its air bridge fleet, using unguided missiles to do so.

During the Oriskany action, the besieged Americans staged a sortie from Fort Stanwix and raided the nearly empty Indian camp.

After the victory, when the Danes had taken refuge in Chippenham, the West Saxons removed from the area around all food that the Danes might be able to capture in a sortie, and waited.

However an unexpected sortie from the pā resulted in the temporary occupation of the knoll on which Tāmati Wāka Nene had his camp and the capture of Nene's colours-the Union Jack.

* April 21 – U. S. Air Force Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird 61 – 7974 Item 2025, outbound on an operational sortie from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, suffers an engine explosion and total hydraulic failure.

In view of the Ottoman fleet's superiority in speed and broadside weight, the Greek planners expected it to sortie from the straits early in the war.

First aircraft capable of demonstrating transition from short take-off to supersonic flight to vertical landing on the same sortie, but very expensive.

As Boers surrounded Ladysmith and opened fire on the town with siege guns, White ordered a major sortie against the Boer artillery positions.

In a letter to William Lenthall, Speaker of the English House of Commons, written shortly after the storming of the town, Cromwell explained why he did not fully invest the town — an action that would have left his divided command vulnerable to an attack by a relieving force and a simultaneous sortie by the garrison — but rather concentrated his troops on the south side of Drogheda for a swift assault.

A sortie from the city was repelled but weakened the besieging British, and on 29 June a British ship flying under a truce flag brought news of a preliminary peace agreement between the two nations, resulting in a mutually-agreed suspension of hostilities on July 2.

The fact that the Italians had sortied so far to the east established a threat potential that forced the British to keep their battleships ready to face another such sortie during the operations off Greece and Crete.

When the British made a sortie against that sector, d ' Estaing advanced alone to reconnoiter their movements.

The Italian fleet at Taranto was powerful: six battleships ( five battleworthy ), seven heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and eight destroyers, making the threat of a sortie against British shipping a serious problem.

During World War II in September 1940, there was a British sortie codenamed Operation Lucid to send old oil tankers into French ports to destroy barges intended for the planned invasion of Britain ; it was abandoned when both tankers broke down.

In total, 11 merchant ships ( six German, one British, two Swedish and two Norwegian ) were sunk during the British sortie into the harbour.

A sortie from the fort early on the morning of 22 August briefly seized three of the British batteries, until they were driven back some of the Bengal Sepoys and the 69th Foot.

Streib shoots down five British bombers – a Lancaster and four Halifaxes – in a single sortie, but his He 219 is wrecked in a landing accident when he returns to base.

* August 6 – 9 – Plagued by weather and communications problems, German Navy airships prove unable to provide effective reconnaissance support to a minelaying sortie by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Meteor, which scuttles herself when she is intercepted by British light cruisers and destroyers.

* October 19 – German Navy Zeppelins participate in a High Seas Fleet sortie into the North Sea, but German and British ships do not come into contact with one another, although the Zeppelin L 14 sights part of the Royal Navys Harwich Force.

After a number of minor battles against the Royal Navy that were mostly lost or inconclusive, the Italian fleet was left in Taranto from where it could sortie very quickly against any British attempt to reach Malta.

As expected, a sortie of about 55 British troops advanced from the fort to engage: but the poorly trained American troops fired only one volley at the attacking British troops, inflicting about 13 casualties, and fled back to their fort, leaving behind all of their arms and equipment.

The RAF is in such a bad need of pilots during the Battle of Britain that eventually the Czech and Slovak airmen are allowed to fly, and after their first sortie they realise why the British were training them so intensely: a young Czechoslovak nicknamed Tom Tom is shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf-109.

After a disaster when a sortie against a British outpost was surrounded and forced to surrender by Native Americans at the Battle of Beaver Dams, they remained largely inactive on this front until they abandoned Fort George in December 1813.

An American sortie and relief attempt failed with heavy casualties, but the British failed to capture the fort and were forced to raise the siege.

On 2 May, Harrison sent a courier to Clay's force, with orders for part of them to spike the British guns on the north bank and then withdraw into the fort, while a sortie from the fort attacked the battery on the south bank.

On the south bank, the American sortie against the British battery was partially successful.

The Kaiser congratulated the president on repelling the Jameson Raid, a sortie by 600 British irregulars from Cape Colony into the Transvaal under the command of Leander Starr Jameson.

Once there they gained the battle honour Niagara for their repulse of an American sortie into British territory.

On 3 September 1939, the day war broke out, a Blenheim from 2 Group made the first British operational sortie to cross the German frontier in the Second World War.