8 sentences with “raids”

Warfare was mainly territorial raids and perhaps noble combat to demonstrate strength and power.

The war itself consisted of a series of raids and invasions by English forces punctuated by the occasional major battle.

Operating at night to avoid air raids, the trucks move ammunition and supplies to depots, where they are met by columns of porters.

As the slave trade flourished, Europeans launched slave raids, but most of the slaves were captured by African slavers, who made huge profits from the trade.

These privateers began a campaign of raids against Spanish possessions in the New World and even Spanish ports, culminating in the sinking of a Spanish fleet anchored at Cadiz in 1587.

However, the raids began again and in 1066 William the Conqueror, a Viking king descended from Normandy in northern France, invaded and defeated the Anglo-Saxon king and instituted Norman rule.

From the late 8th century onwards, the Anglo-Saxons suffered waves of Viking raids that culminated in the establishment of a full-blown Viking kingdom in what had been the Anglo-Saxon territory of eastern England.

The Viking raids were so sudden and so destructive that Charlemagne himself ordered the construction of fortifications at the mouth of the Seine River and began to expand his naval defences to try to defend against them.