Outside the ritual battles, the quick raid was the most frequent combat action, marked by burning kraals, seizure of captives, and the driving off of cattle.

The period immediately before June 28, 1969 was marked by frequent raids of local bars — including a raid at the Stonewall Inn on the Tuesday before the riots — and the closing of the Checkerboard, the Tele-Star, and two other clubs in Greenwich Village.

The devastating Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793 marked the beginning of a century of Viking invasions that severely checked all Anglo-Saxon culture, and heralded the end of Northumbria's position as a centre of influence, although in the years immediately following confident works like the Easby Cross were still being produced.

The raid, marked by the pillaging of the island's church and the burning of its buildings, took place in 795 ( The burning of Reachrainn by plunderers ; and its shrines were broken and plundered.

Also the trade and raid routes, often inseparable, are marked.

Pathfinders were groups of specially trained aircrews who flew ahead of the main raid and marked the target.

The battalion arrived at the battery at 04: 00, where it linked up with the survivors of the pathfinder group who had been hit by the RAF raid against the battery, and began readying for an assault on the battery whilst the pathfinders marked out areas for the Bangalore torpedoes to be placed.

Subsequent Danish ( Viking ) invasion marked a period of destruction of many buildings in Saxon England, including in 793 the raid on Lindisfarne.

Their task was to hold and raid from the right-hand flank of the beachhead marked by the Mussolini Canal / Pontine Marshes.

The group sued Observer editor David Astor over the report, in a case marked by discussion of an armed police raid of the building in which bullets were found.

Originally organized to free FSLN members imprisoned by the regime — among the prisoners being Daniel Ortega and Tomas Borge — the raid marked an uncontested victory for the FSLN.

Spínola's tenure as governor marked a turning point in the war: Portugal began to win battles, and in a Portuguese invasion of Guinea, 1970 raid on Conakry, in the neighbouring Republic of Guinea, 400 amphibious troops attacked the city and freed 26 Portuguese prisoners of war kept there by the PAIGC.

The 1823 raid marked the start of a long period of raids and counter raids lasting until 1848 as New Mexicans took Navajos captive to work as slaves, and as Navajos raided to recover their people and to obtain livestock.

The June 15, 1944, mission – the first raid on the Japanese home islands since the Doolittle raid of April 1942 – marked the beginning of the strategic bombardment campaign against Japan.

The river marked the eastern extent of the Clan Mackay raid in the Sandside Chase of 1437.

The raid was led by special pathfinder crews who marked central aiming points.

Of this raid, Edward Gibbon writes: " One hundred Arabs and four hundred Africans passed over, in four vessels, from Tangier or Ceuta ; the place of their descent on the opposite shore of the strait is marked by the name of Tarif their chief " which today is the city of Tarifa.

* 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.

In 793, a Viking raid on Lindisfarne caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the Viking Age.

This raid marks the beginning of the " Viking Age of Invasion ", made possible by the Viking longship.

The raid soon ran into difficulties, beginning with hesitation by the Uitlander leaders.

A stun grenade was apparently used by members of the IHH against the IDF soldiers during the Gaza flotilla raid at the beginning of the IDF storming of the Mavi Marmara.

In 793 a Viking raid on Christian monastery at Lindisfarne in north-east England caused much consternation throughout the Christian west, and is now often taken as the beginning of the age of Viking raids.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Italy was at the forefront of aerial warfare: during the colonization of Libya in 1911, it made the first reconnaissance flight in history on 23 October, and the first ever bombing raid on 1 November.

Despite the raiders ' best efforts, Union forces had amassed nearly 110, 000 militia in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio ; dozens of United States Navy gunboats along the Ohio ; and strong Federal cavalry forces, which doomed the raid from the beginning.

It has been suggested that this battle may have been part of a traditional " inaugural raid " against hostile neighbors to mark the beginning of a king's rule.

The FLNC responded to the attacks by carrying out a daring raid on Fort-Lacroix, near Bastia on 24 May and at the beginning of June they destroyed a large section of Bastia railway station in a bomb attack ; a month later the FLNC launched an overnight bomb offensive hitting 27 pro-French targets followed by the bombing of the television relay station at Serra di Pigno.

The raid was doomed from the start: it took place inside U. S. territory, and the Métis under Riel signed a pact with the British just as the invasion was beginning.

Several action scenes, including the one where an A6M Zero slams into the's bridge, were taken from Away All Boats ( 1956 ); scenes of Doolittle's Tokyo raid at the beginning of the film are from Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ).

In the beginning of the game, in a wholly fictionalized storyline based on Operation Chariot as no Americans took part in the original raid, Holt and the British force are heading to the vital submarine pens at St. Nazaire.

A tense period punctuated by several incidents of military incursions on Anjouan continued from the beginning of March with notable events including an abortive Comoron raid on Domoni in the south of the island, the seizure of two Anjouan soldiers on the coast close to Sima and the crash of a French military helicopter also near Sima.

: German bombing raid on South London's formal beginning of The Blitz.

Thus it was that the raid was in the beginning non-violent.

However, rapid technological change, and internal debates over orientation toward the company and toward potential merger with other unions ( culminating in an unsuccessful raid by the Communication Workers of America in 1963 ) helped lead to very strained relations beginning in the 1960's.

Monument to commemorate the 1970 military victory over the Portuguese raid.

In 1970, Portuguese forces, from neighboring Portuguese Guinea, staged Operation Green Sea, a raid into Guinea with the support of exiled Guinean opposition forces.

Dominican friars, the occasional Dutch raid, and the Timorese themselves competed with Portuguese merchants.

Portuguese soldiers continued to raid the islands during 1435, and Eugene issued a further edict Sicut Dudum that prohibited wars being waged against the islands and affirming the ban on enslavement.

After three Germans were mistakenly killed in Naulilaa on the border of the Portuguese colony of Angola ( in a manner that did not violate international law ), Germany carried out a military raid on Naulilaa, destroying property in retaliation.

Dominican friars, the occasional Dutch raid, and the Timorese themselves provided opposition to the Portuguese.

A raid by Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's remaining troops evaded British troops and managed to penetrate relatively far into Portuguese Mozambique, seizing arms, capturing troops, and sparking unrest among the population ( African and European ).

The operation involved a daring raid on Conakry, a PAIGC safe haven, in which 400 Portuguese Fuzileiros ( amphibious assault troops ) attacked the city.

According to a deposition made in 1692 by a Portuguese priest, Zumbi was born in Palmares in 1655, but was captured by Portuguese forces in a raid while still an infant.

If so, he may have been sent out in 1427 as just one of Henry's several expeditions in the 1420s down the West African coast in an attempt to double Cape Bojador, or that he may have been going on a routine trip to Madeira, and it has even been speculated he might have been part of a failed Portuguese attack or slave raid on the Canary Islands.