It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.

What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.

A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.

But the attack was made from an advance copy.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.

There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

The troopers knew an attack was coming, but they didn't know when, and they didn't know where.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

He was invulnerable to attack, but he could be handled, Mickey knew, if he could be brought to make the first move.

One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.

Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

* 2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.

The one major paratrooper attack was used earlier in Holland to capture a bridge and a number of small-scale glider-landings were conducted in Belgium to capture terrain dominating bottle-necks on planned routes of advance prior to the arrival of the main ground forces ( the most renowned being the landing on the Belgian border-fort of Eben-Emael ).

It was not until 105 BC that they planned an attack on the Roman Republic itself.

Odrade, however, had planned for the possible failure of the Bene Gesserit attack and left Murbella instructions for a last desperate gamble.

On November 20, 1910, Madero arrived at the border and planned to meet up with 400 men raised by his uncle Catarino to launch an attack on Ciudad Porfirio Díaz ( modern-day Piedras Negras, Coahuila ).

He planned an attack on the Isthmus of Panama, known to the Spanish as Tierra Firme and the English as the Spanish Main.

These orders failed to get through and the attack went ahead as originally planned.

General Baratieri planned to surprise the larger Ethiopian force with an early morning attack, expecting that his enemy would be asleep.

He wrote that " all of the democratic circles of America and of Europe, especially those of the Italian centre-left, now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to place the blame on Arabic countries and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan ".

After an intense argument with General Heinz Guderian, who insisted on a change of command of the Army Group Vistula, Hitler assigned General Walther Wenck to Himmler's headquarters to take over command of a limited counter-offensive ; Hitler then observed that it was not possible for him to move the troops needed for Guderian's planned double pincer attack from neighbouring regions.

Before this planned attack he married a German girl named Ildico.

The Queen's Rangers saw extensive action during the Philadelphia campaign, including a successful surprise attack ( planned and executed by Simcoe ) at the Battle of Crooked Billet.

During that meeting, both Ciano and Attolico were horrified to learn from Ribbentrop that Germany planned to attack Poland that summer, and that the Danzig issue was just a pretext for aggression.

When the flamethrower that Gustav was using to attack Mister Fantastic with nearly endangered his art collection, Doctor Doom reversed the sonic weapon he planned to use on the Fantastic Four and ended up using it to kill Gustav Hauptmann.

According to Protector, the original colonists had planned to call their world " Flatland " as a sort of joke, but once settled on Home they had changed their minds — " a belated attack of patriotism ", Elroy Truesdale of Protector muses.

At the same time, at the head of ten legions, Mieszko went to Moravia and planned an allied attack together with Bohemia against the Emperor.

Of those believed to have planned the massacre, only Abu Daoud, the man who claims that the attack was his idea, is known to have died of natural causes.

They had planned a night attack.

The attack was planned to take place on April 19, 1995, to coincide with the anniversary of the Waco Siege and the 220th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Stephen marched rapidly north to York and the planned attack disintegrated, leaving Henry to return to Normandy, where he was declared Duke by his father.

Whereas the current U. S. NMD system is designed around a relatively limited and unsophisticated attack, SDI planned for a massive attack by a sophisticated opponent.

It was also reported that in 2007, U. S. intelligence suspected that Osama bin Laden planned to meet with top Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders at Tora Bora prior to the launch of a possible attack in Europe or even the United States.

* June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

* January 27 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph C. Grew, the U. S. ambassador to Japan, reports to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception concerning a planned surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.