It would be the most severe reprisal, short of declared war, that the United States could invoke against Castro.

( In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, Judge Smith threatened reprisal against Powell.

In July, the Great Fear of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing French Revolution struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 ( when the news of the storming of the Bastille first reached the town ) before spreading towards Digne.

* 1940 4 July – French bombers, based in French Morocco, carried out a retaliatory air raid over Gibraltar as a reprisal for the destruction of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, by the Force H ( about 1, 300 French sailors were killed and about 350 were wounded in the action against the French fleet ).

The Judiciary Committee and the US Senate Finance Committee issued a scathing report in 2007, which found that Aguirre had been illegally fired in reprisal for his pursuit of Mack and in 2009, the SEC was forced to re-open its case against Pequot.

As a result these powerful militias, it seemed as of late 2006, were leading reprisal acts of violence against the Sunni minority.

On 5 March 1975, a Montoneros bomb detonates in the underground parking at Plaza Colón of the Argentine Army High Command and a garbage truck driver, Alberto Blas García is killed and 28 others are wounded, including four colonels and 18 other ranks. On 3 June 1975, Montoneros guerrillas murdered Raul Amelong, manager of the Acindar steel firm in Rosario, in reprisal for alleged repression against striking employes.

A " letter of marque and reprisal " would involve permission to cross an international border to effect a reprisal ( take some action against an attack or injury ) authorized by an issuing jurisdiction to conduct reprisal operations outside its borders.

A reprisal involved seeking the sovereign's permission to exact private retribution against some foreign prince or subject.

The attacks were defined as acts of " air piracy " and the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 was introduced, which would have granted the president the authority to use letters of marque and reprisal against the specific terrorists, instead of warring against a foreign state.

Due to the Palestinian activity in South Lebanon and the potential Israeli reprisal against their encampments, UNTSO felt the potential for further conflict warranted the additional observation posts.

*-A fictionalized account of the death of Reinhard Heydrich and the reprisal against Licide.

* crimes of war: 1944 reprisal by french partisans against german prisoners

The non-treaty Nez Perce suffered many injustices at the hands of settlers and prospectors, but out of fear of reprisal from the militarily superior Americans, Joseph never allowed any violence against them, instead making many concessions to them in hopes of securing peace.

If a representative said that a bill was unpopular in his district, then DeLay would ask him to vote for it only if his vote were necessary for passage ; if his vote were not needed, then the representative would be able to vote against the party without reprisal.

In anticipation of Atvar's reprisal against him, Straha exiles himself ( in shame ) among the humans.

On April 17, 1861, Confederate President Jefferson Davis invited applications for letters of marque and reprisal to be granted under the seal of the Confederate States, against ships and property of the United States and their citizens:

In an environment of systematic reprisal by the British, Captain Octavius Anson, of the 9th Lancers, recalled observing acts of punitive violence against Indian civilians, including the alleged kiling of incapacitated villagers by soldiers of the 8th Foot.

In addition to action against the IRA, the USC was implicated in a number of attacks on Catholic civilians in reprisal for IRA actions.

* December 16 – 17 ( overnight ) – For the first time, Royal Air Force Bomber Command conducts a raid focusing on attacking a city center rather than specific targets in Operation Rachel, a raid by 134 British bombers against Mannheim, Germany, in reprisal for the German raid on Coventry in November.

The incident resulted the offenders being prosecuted and a number of reprisal attacks against U. S. troops by insurgent forces.

As a result of his feudal duties, he accompanied the French King Philip August on his conquest of Normandy, placed thus in a bad position, in reprisal the English King confiscated his English lands and arrested him on reconquering Normandy.

In reprisal for the seizure of his father's ship in 1476 by the Flemish, he received a royal commission on 6 November 1506 from King James against the Portuguese, and was said to have preyed on their commerce in the English Channel.

His roles include a reprisal of his Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, as well as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, Edgar / Poor Tom in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all of which he performs in his natural accent.

Puhirake believed British reprisal for his support of the King Movement during the Waikato War was inevitable, so he constructed Gate Pa for protection.

Following denial-of-service attacks by Anonymous on multiple sites, in reprisal for the apparent suppression of Wikileaks, John Perry Barlow, a founding member of the EFF, said " I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target ... they're the poison gas of cyberspace ...".

The burning of Fort Granville at present-day Lewistown in 1756 prompted Pennsylvania governor John Penn to launch a reprisal against the Lenape and Shawnee led by Lt. Col. John Armstrong, who burned Kittanning in September 1756.

* Jesselyn Radack, a former United States Department of Justice ethics adviser who argued that John Walker Lindh was entitled to an attorney, was placed on the No Fly List as part of what she believes to be a reprisal for her whistle-blowing.

It is believed that DeSimone was murdered as a reprisal for having killed two of John Gotti's close friends, specifically William " Billy Batts " DeVino and Foxy Jerothe.

After the French fleet had burnt Brighton in 1513, Henry VIII ordered Sir John Wallop to hold reprisal raids.

Homes and farms of rebel supporters were burned in reprisal but British authorities took a lenient approach toward captured rebels, including Richard John Uniacke, who went on to become Attorney General of Nova Scotia.

An example of reprisal is the Naulilaa dispute between Portugal and Germany in October 1914.

In this way, the Barton family were at war with Portugal for almost a century ( c. 1470-1563 ), eventually subcontracting an entire fleet of privateers under their letter of reprisal.

In 1053 Edward ordered the assassination of the south Welsh prince, Rhys ap Rhydderch in reprisal for a raid on England, and Rhys's head was delivered to him.

* An event in 756 where the occupying rebel An Lushan ordered Sun Xiaozhe to have eighty three princesses, their husbands, and parties of Yang Guozhong and Gao Lishi murdered at Zongren Fang in reprisal for his already executed son An Qingzong.

After an unsuccessful attempt to kill him by two Eritreans on 19 February 1937 ( and after other murders of Italians in occupied Ethiopia ), Graziani ordered a bloody and indiscriminate reprisal upon the conquered country, later remembered by Ethiopians as Yekatit 12: up to thirty thousand civilians of Addis Ababa were killed indiscriminately ; another 1, 469 were summarily executed by the end of the next month, and over one thousand Ethiopian notables were imprisoned and then exiled from Ethiopia.

Cabral also ordered his ships to bombard Calicut for an entire day in reprisal for the violation of the agreement.

Fearing German reprisal actions, general Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski ordered full mobilisation of Home Army forces in Warsaw area.

In September 2005, the Québec Labor Board ruled that the closing of a Walmart store amounted to a reprisal against unionized workers and has ordered additional hearings on possible compensation for the employees, though it offered no details.

United States President Lyndon B. Johnson in February 1965 ordered a series of reprisal air strikes after several attacks on U. S. bases by Vietcong units, particularly in reply to a mortar attack at Pleiku.

# Mass murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia by having ordered hostage taking and reprisal killings.

During the fighting in Courland, the brigade was subject to heavy partisan attacks, and after a number of attacks, Wagner ordered the reprisal executions of an unknown number of civilians.

On one occasion, O ' Malley ordered the killing of three captured British officers in reprisal for Army killings of IRA prisoners.

Following congressionally ordered investigations, the inspector-general at the State Department concluded that Barlow had been fired as a reprisal ; however, the inspector-generals at the CIA and the Defense Department stated that the Pentagon was within its rights to fire Barlow.

Šakić also ordered the reprisal against inmates in June 1944, in light of the escape of Ivan Wollner, who played the orchestra for the red-cross delegation, and feared for his life.