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This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.
Many victims of Cheka repression were ' bourgeois hostages ' rounded up and held in readiness for summary execution in reprisal for any alleged counter-revolutionary act.
* 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 ).
As a result these powerful militias, it seemed as of late 2006, were leading reprisal acts of violence against the Sunni minority.
At the same time, black soldiers were also bayoneted by white Union soldiers who feared reprisal from victorious CSA troops.
The letter of marque and reprisal first arose in 1295, 50 years after wartime privateer licenses were first issued.
According to Grotius, letters of marque and reprisal were akin to a " private war ", a concept alien to modern sensibilities but related to an age when the ocean was lawless and all merchant vessels sailed armed for self-defense.
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.
The security forces were also reportedly implicated in reprisal killings of Catholics, notably the McMahon Murders on 26 March 1922, in which six Catholics were killed and the Arnon Street Massacre on 1 April, where another six were shot dead in retaliation for the IRA killing of a policeman.
However, the uprising was predominantly led by community councils led by Hanan Ashrawi, Faisal Husseini and Haidar Abdel-Shafi, that promoted independent networks for education ( underground schools as the regular schools were closed by the military in reprisal for the uprising ), medical care, and food aid.
After the attack on high-ranking German officer Rauter, about 300 persons were executed publicly as reprisal.
During the American Revolutionary War, no battles took place in present-day Closter, though the residents were seen largely as supporters of the rebels and became the target of British foraging and reprisal raids.
Ye retaliated by issuing a proclamation calling on the people of Canton to " unite in exterminating these troublesome English villains " and offering a $ 100 bounty for the head of any Englishman as the British factories outside the city were burned to the ground in reprisal.
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.
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.
However, most were not socially considered white, and therefore, accoding to Historian Neil Foley in the book The White Scourge Mexicans and Mexican Americans did marry non-whites typically without reprisal.
On the day Wilson's killers were hanged Currygrane was burned to the ground, possibly as a reprisal although possibly as an unrelated part of the unrest in that county.
The psychological impact of WP on the enemy was noted by many troop commanders in WWII, and captured 4. 2-inch mortar men were sometimes summarily executed by German forces in reprisal.

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* February 6 – Cuba cuts off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in reprisal for the U. S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4 Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida.
On February 22, 2006, the golden dome of the al-Askari Mosque was destroyed by bombs, setting off a period of rioting and reprisal attacks across the country which claimed hundreds of lives.
On one occasion-in the wake of yet another raid on IT-London's alternative press, somewhat astonishingly, succeeded in pulling off what was billed as a ' reprisal attack ' on the police.
A year later, a mass reprisal is unleashed across New York City, leaving Luke Cage in a coma as Fury and a cadre of NYC heroes face off against a cyborg Von Bardas and her hi-tech army.

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During the operation he suffered serious injuries, after which Sharon had recommended to the General Staff that an elite force, trained in commando tactics, be set up for reprisal operations.
The Maulets resisted, especially in Xàtiva, a town which had to be taken by the Bourbonics after a fierce battle, and was afterwards razed and set on fire as a reprisal.
* 11 December-British forces set fire to some of the centre of Cork City, including the City Hall, in reprisal attacks after a British auxiliary is killed in a guerilla ambush.
" Apparently a rumour was going round that Colonel Wigle had been killed by a civilian sniper ; as a result a great part of the town of Friesoythe was set on fire in a mistaken reprisal.
V-weapons also, known in the original German as Vergeltungswaffen ( German: " retaliatory weapons ", " reprisal weapons "), were a particular set of long range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly terror bombing and / or aerial bombing of cities.
On June 25, 1944, German troops based in Cosne-sur-Loire set fire to the village of Thauvenay in reprisal for an ambush of the French Resistance, burning 23 houses, executing six men, a 7-year-old boy and taking eleven people hostage.

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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.
In reprisal, that afternoon, British forces opened fire on a football crowd at Croke Park, killing 14 civilians.
Beria's decision to avoid immediately calling a doctor was silently supported ( or at least not opposed ) by the rest of the Politburo, which was rudderless without Stalin's micromanagement and paralyzed by a legitimate fear he would suddenly recover and wreak violent reprisal on anyone who had dared to act without his orders.
A patient is at his or her safest when a health care worker has the right to speak out on the patient's behalf without fear of reprisal or retaliation.
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.
During the war, the village of Kittanning – the principal Shawnee settlement on the river – was completely destroyed by British reprisal raids from Central Pennsylvania.
The issue of marque and reprisal was raised before Congress after the September 11 attacks and again on July 21, 2007, by Congressman Ron Paul.
It is built near the site of the previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.
Probably the worst act of reprisal was the assault on the fishing village of Telavåg in the spring of 1942.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army's Shankill Road Bombing of a fish shop in October 1993 was an attempt to assassinate Adair and the rest of the UDA's Belfast leadership in reprisal for attacks on Catholics.
Upon confirmation regarding the completion of the accidental attack on Moscow, the President realizes the severity of the situation and seeks a resolution to the matter that will avoid reprisal from the Russians and, ultimately, an all-out nuclear holocaust.
His most successful attack, which disabled the planetary power grid on Cardassia, was met with brutal Dominion reprisal in the annihilation of a Cardassian city and all its inhabitants.
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 ...".
After a misunderstanding results in human astronauts destroying their base, the vengeful Mysterons declare war on Earth, initiating a succession of reprisal attacks that are countered by Spectrum, an international security organisation.
She won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin ', as well as an Emmy Award for her reprisal of the role on television.
The town was destroyed in 1779 by Kentucky militia in reprisal for Blackfish's attack on Boonesburough.
After bringing together over 400 Missouri riders for the Confederate cause in a carefully planned rendezvous on August 21 in Lawrence, Kansas, Quantrill led his men into the town, looting, burning, and executing between 150 and 200 adult males in reprisal for murderous raids conducted by Kansas Jayhawkers and Redleggers in Missouri.
* December 4 – In reprisal for an attack on United States military bases in Beirut, Lebanon, 28 United States Navy A-6 Intruders attack suspected terrorist bases in Libya.

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