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The raiding party consisted of two officers and eight men from No. 2 Commando, and two men of the Norwegian Armed Forces in exile who were part of the Special Operations Executive.
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" Since no one in the raiding party is carrying any change, nor do they realize that there is nothing stopping them from simply riding around the tollbooth, Taggart sends someone back to town to " get a shitload of dimes ".
In March 1686, the French sent a raiding party under the Chevalier des Troyes over to capture the company's posts along James Bay.
In 711 an Islamic Berber and Arab raiding party, led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad, was sent to Iberia to intervene in a civil war in the Visigothic Kingdom.
Duke Odo the Great defeated a major invading force at Toulouse in 721 but failed to repel a raiding party in 732.
The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.
The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.
In 1223, the disunited southern princes faced a Mongol raiding party at the Kalka River and were soundly defeated.
Although size distinctions were taken account of, any grouping of men on a mission could collectively be called an impi, whether a raiding party of 100 or horde of 10, 000.
* 1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland ; Douglas is captured.
On March 17, 1863, Stuart's cavalry clashed with a Union raiding party at Kelly's Ford.
The following year, John seized the town of Gamaches and led a raiding party within of Paris, capturing the Bishop of Beauvais.
Saladin attacked Kerak again in April, and in May, a Muslim raiding party ran into the much smaller embassy on its way to negotiate with Raymond, and defeated it at the Battle of Cresson near Nazareth.
In the aftermath the defeated expedition of 60 quinqueremes and several transports encountered a Roman raiding party from Africa with 100 quinqueremes.
The fast-moving Zulu raiding party or " ibutho lempi " on a mission invariably traveled light, driving cattle as provisions on the hoof, and were not weighed down with heavy weapons and supply packs.
Any grouping of men on a mission could collectively be called an impi, whether a raiding party of 100 or horde of 10, 000.
In the story, gunslinger Roland Deschain and his allies defend a small village from a raiding party that steals children once a generation.
In 854 a raiding party overwintered a second time, at the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames estuary.
* July 22 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas is defeated by forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland ; Douglas is captured.
* Winter – Much of the English town of Alnwick in Northumbria is burnt by a Scottish raiding party.
With the widespread increase in bandits across the Chinese nation, the Han army had no way to repel each and every raiding party.
The first German raiding party to enter the fort was led by Leutnant Eugen Radtke, Hauptmann Hans Joachim Haupt and Oberleutnant Cordt von Brandis ( after the war, a certain Feldwebel Kunze claimed to have been first to enter Fort Douaumont but this was never confirmed officially ).
The whole German raiding party, made up of only 19 officers and 79 soldiers, promptly overwhelmed the small French maintenance garrison ( 68 men ) and forced its surrender.
Being the highest-ranking officers in the raiding party, both von Brandis and Haupt won the highest German military decoration, Pour le Mérite, for their success in this extraordinary action.
In 1765, a Saône exploring and raiding party led by Chief Standing Bear discovered the Black Hills ( the Paha Sapa ), then the territory of the Cheyenne.
A raiding party against Spanish missions in Florida passes the Ocmulgee trading-post.
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Before the dawn of civilization, war likely consisted of small-scale raiding.
Their first military exploit consisted of raiding the Danish coast, in an effort to impress the natives by demonstrating that Magnus offered them no protection, and thus leading them to submit to Harald and Sweyn.
Political contacts consisted of a series of treaty arrangements for the nominal allegiance of the Kalmyk Khans to Russia, and the cessation of mutual raiding by Kalmyks on the one hand and Cossacks and Bashkirs on the other.
The raiding party consisted of 40 men from the newly formed No. 3 Commando under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Durnford-Slater, and 100 men of No. 11 Independent Company under Major Ronnie Tod.
In 1944 it was sparsely populated and consisted of wood covered hills, valley pastures and small isolated villages, an ideal area for a small mobile raiding force to operate.
The groups consisted mostly of Soviet POWs and initially specialized in raiding local settlements, which disturbed both the OUN and the AK, who expected it to result in an increase in German terror.
The navy consisted of a wide variety of different classes of warships, from heavy polyremes to light raiding and scouting vessels.
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The Carthaginian navy had been defeated in two major encounters by the Romans, but neither side was usually able to interdict the other from raiding each other's coasts.
With the Senators leading 7 – 5 and two outs in the top of the ninth inning, several hundred youths stormed the field, raiding it for souvenirs.
On February 24, 1817, a raiding party killed Mrs. Garrett, a woman living in Camden County, Georgia, and her two young children.
The two convents he founded there were looted and dispersed by Moorish raiding parties in the 8th century, and a hilltop convent was burnt by Norman raiders.
The rebels surrendered to French forces after two years of raiding French outposts in October 1921.
On the day the new parliament first met, two RIC policemen, Constables Patrick MacDonnell and James O ' Connell, were killed at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary, by an IRA raiding party, while on duty guarding dynamite in transit to the local mines.
For seven days, the two armies skirmished and maneuvered, with the Islamic forces recalling all their raiding parties, so that on the seventh day, their army was at full strength.
In late June, a powerful Indian raiding party discovered that the road between the two forts was basically unguarded.
Hoping to revive commerce raiding, the Imperial Navy equipped the impounded three-masted sailing ship Pass of Balmaha ( 1571 tons ) with two 105 mm guns hidden behind hinged gunwales, several machine guns, and two carefully hidden 500 HP auxiliary engines.
The Hidatsa had captured these two young women on one of their annual raiding and hunting parties to the west.
At 17: 45 the raiding force embarked upon the two destroyers, Scimitar and Saladin and accompanied by six Royal Air Force air-sea rescue launches, who would take them from the destroyers to the landing beaches, they set out for the Guernsey.
The drop was almost a success, with all of the raiding force landing on the edge of the drop-zone with the exception of half of ' Nelson ' detachment, which landed two miles short.
After the sudden death of Queen Sindeok, and while King Taejo was still in mourning for his second wife, Yi Bang-won struck first by raiding the palace and killed Jeong Do-jeon and his supporters as well as Queen Sindeok's two sons including the crown prince in 1398.
The Mescaleros and the Navajo had a long tradition of raiding each other ; the two tribes had many disputes during their encampment.
* April 10 – The Japanese carrier raiding force departs the Indian Ocean, having destroyed an aircraft carrier, two heavy cruisers, two destroyers, three lesser warships, 23 merchant ships, and over 40 aircraft.
In many places may be seen the Hay family arms including the three cattle yokes which recall a farmer and his two sons who were instrumental in the defeat of a Danish raiding party at Cruden Bay.
The two sides then spent a year raiding each other ’ s territories with no lasting gains for either side, although the Birkebeiners had the upper hand at sea.
The spectacular growth of industrial jobs in the first half of the 20th century, combined with new legislation in most Canadian jurisdictions explicitly recognizing the industrial union organizational model, lead to fears of raiding between the unions belonging to the two federations, the TLC and the CCL.
After the sudden death of Queen Sindeok in 1398, while King Taejo was still in mourning for his second wife, Yi Bang-won struck first by raiding the palace and killed Jeong Do-jeon and his supporters as well as Queen Sindeok's two sons including the crown prince in a coup that came to be known as the First Strife of Princes.
Cossacks, however, were raiding wealthy merchant port cities in the heart of the Ottoman Empire, which were just two days away by boat from the mouth of the Dnipro.
These missions are both day and night in a two part, four and five day FTX, and include moving cross country over mountains, vehicle ambushes, raiding communications and mortar sites, river crossing, and scaling steeply-sloped mountainous terrain.
In Walking with Dinosaurs, one was eaten by an angry Tyrannosaurus while raiding a nest, and two later fought over a tyrannosaur egg from the same nest.
In 1997 to 1998, two out of five radio-collared kodkods were killed on Chiloe Island while raiding chicken coops.
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