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At the height of the Moro raids, the Recollect Missionaries gave up the island of Mindoro in 1776 for several reasons: one of which was the lack of personnel brought about by the raiders who either kill or capture for ransom the helpless missionaries.
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At and raids
At the basis of this ... there is not only the massive use of heavy armoured divisions or cooperation between them and airplanes, but the creation of disorder in the enemy's rear by means of parachute raids.
At the end of the 19th century, slavery in the Brazilian Empire was already doomed for many reasons, among them the ever increasing number of slave's escapes and the frequent raids by quilombo militias on properties which still adopted slavery.
At sea, the powerful Royal Navy blockaded much of the coastline, conducting frequent raids.
At 9 pm on November 7, 1919, a date chosen because it was the second anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, agents of the Bureau of Investigation, together with local police, executed a series of well-publicized and violent raids against the Russian Workers in 12 cities.
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At the same time, the need to protect the Anatolian heartland of Byzantium from the Arab raids led to the creation, in the later 8th and early 9th centuries, of a series of small frontier districts, the kleisourai or kleisourarchiai (" defiles, enclosures ").
At the end of World War II, 90 % of Cologne's buildings were destroyed by Allied aerial bombing raids, most of them flown by the RAF.
At various times, there have been massive coordinated raids in the interior, and throughout coastal Borneo, directed by the Raj during Brooke's reign in Sarawak.
At first they made lightning raids out of Appledore, in one of these they razed to the ground a large settlement, Seleberhtes Cert ( present-day Great Chart near Ashford ); later, the whole army moved further inland and engaged in numerous battles with the English, but after four years they gave up.
At the time John was in open rebellion against his brother, the king, and Walter had wrongly assumed Richard would approve of the raids.
At the insistence of his mother, and despite the wartime interruptions of air raids, deportations, starvation and invasions by both Germans and later, the Russians, István Kertész continued his musical studies.
At least 33 raids, reconnaissance patrols and rescue missions in the Pacific Islands, notably RIMAU, COPPER and PYTHON used these folboats.
At the time, the town was on the edge of a deep bay of the North Sea, making it vulnerable to raids by the Vikings, who attacked and destroyed it in the 9th century.
At this stage of the war these raids were generally successful.
At first they were a small force of volunteers who carried out small raids against enemy occupied territory, but by 1943 their role had changed into lightly equipped assault infantry which specialised in spearheading amphibious landings.
At first it developed as a defense post against the raids by the Teutonic and Livonian Orders.
At Pylos, a Messenian garrison was installed, and these men, launching raids into country that had once been their home, did significant damage to the Spartans and instigated the desertion of numerous Helots.
At about this point, 924, the Vikings made a fresh series of raids into West Francia.
At one time he was given the job of washing the blood off criminals ' money confisticated by the Red Army in raids.
At the time of the raids and associated warrants, her then-husband Mark Marissen was visited at home by the RCMP.
At this time when the Fenian raids were alarming the country, eight company drill-sheds were built in Simcoe County, the county paying $ 390 and the government $ 250 for each.
At sites such as Pichilemu, Cáhuil and Bucalemu, they left trash deposits or shell middens bearing testimony to their raids.
At the initiative of US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, he became involved in the Cuban project AMWORLD, a White House-sponsored and CIA-organized counter-revolutionary unit with bases in Costa Rica and Nicaragua that staged commando raids on Cuban shore installations.
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