* 1989 – Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in the North Sea by British and Dutch governments.

* 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan.

* 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid.

St. John River Campaign: Raid on Grimrose ( present day Gagetown, New Brunswick ).

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

Mountbatten claimed that the lessons learned from the Dieppe Raid were necessary for planning the Normandy invasion on D-Day nearly two years later.

* 1782 – American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia see Raid on Lunenburg ( 1782 ).

* 1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins.

On 25 May 1944, he managed to evade the Germans after the Raid on Drvar ( Operation Rösselsprung ), an airborne assault outside his Drvar headquarters in Bosnia.

* Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby

Begin was played by David Opatoshu in the 1977 TV film Raid on Entebbe and by Barry Morse in the 1983 miniseries Sadat.

* 1919 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

* 1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.

* 2007 – Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos.

For example, on 3 September 1944, the personnel of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division marched six abreast to the music of massed regimental pipe and drum bands through the streets of Dieppe, France to commemorate the liberation of the city from German occupation, as well as commemorate the loss of over 900 soldiers from that formation during the Dieppe Raid two years earlier.

In June 1667 they conducted their Raid on the Medway, broke the defensive chain at Gillingham, and towed away the, one of the Royal Navy's most important ships.

The invasion of Ulster that makes up the main action of the Táin Bó Cúailnge or " Cattle Raid of Cooley " begins on Samhain.

On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.

*, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942

Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed deep social discontent about slavery and its role in the plantation economy.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

The first of these, the Raid on Rochefort took place in September, but was not a success.

* November 7 – The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

The reconstruction after the Raid on Cartagena ( 1697 ) was initially slow, but with the end of the War of the Spanish Succession around 1711 and the competent administration of Juan Díaz de Torrezar Pimienta, the walls were rebuilt, the forts reorganized and restored, and the public services and buildings reopened.

* Raid on Cartagena ( 1697 ), a siege of Cartagena, Colombia

During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).

* 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends – At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

The town of Dieppe was the site of the unsuccessful Dieppe Raid by Canadian and British armed forces.

Otherwise, King continued with a campaign to recruit volunteers, hoping to address the problem with the shortage of troops caused by heavy losses in the Dieppe Raid in 1942, in Italy in 1943, and after the Battle of Normandy in 1944.

* April 18 – WWII: Tokyo, Japan, is attacked by the Doolittle Raid, a small force of B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft commanded by then-Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle.

* July 26 – American Civil War – Morgan's Raid: At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 375 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

** Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport ; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.

British expansionist ideas ( notably propagated by Cecil Rhodes ) as well as disputes over uitlander political and economic rights resulted in the failed Jameson Raid of 1895.

The attacks were somewhat ineffectual at first but still fueled the desire for revenge sparked by the Doolittle Raid.

Beginning in 1952, the " Bell and Lights " Air Raid Warning System, developed by AT & T, was made available to provide automated transmission of an expanded set of alert signals:

During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay ( See Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 )).

The library contains documents and literature about the raid plus survivor accounts collected by Saotome and the Association to Record the Tokyo Air Raid.

This renewed popularity was encouraged by the Citroën " Raid " intercontinental endurance rallies of the 1970s where customers could participate by buying a new 2CV, fitted with a ruggedising ' P. O.

Other appearances in fiction of The red branch and the story of The Cattle Raid Of Cooley and of Cu Chulainn are to be seen in the Series created by Henry H. Neff, called The Tapestry Series.

Indeed Charles, feeling personally humiliated by the events of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, especially the Raid on the Medway, had only engaged himself in the Triple Alliance in order to create a rift between the Dutch and the French, two former allies.

Chamberlain surprised Hatzfeldt by assuring him that Britain and Germany had common interests, that the rupture over the Jameson Raid and the Kruger Telegram was an abnormality and that a defensive alliance should be formulated between the two countries, with specific regards to China.