8 sentences with 'raided'

Example sentences and phrases with the word raided and other words derived from it.

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« Various tribes raided Roman lands, usually resulting in brutal Roman reprisals. »
« The Vikings who raided from Ireland to Russia brought back slaves of all nationalities. »
« A people known as the Avars invaded from the north in the 6th century and raided not only the Balkans but all of Europe, reaching as far as the newly created Frankish kingdom in present-day France. »
« By 1819, American settlers no longer feared attacks by Spanish troops garrisoned in Florida, but hostile tribes such as the Creeks and Seminoles raided Georgia and then retreated to the relative safety of the Florida wilderness. »
« In September 1992, a Chinese navy speedboat raided Hong Kong waters to board a fishing boat in the harbour. As the police photographed the action, the Chinese brandished their guns in the noses of the officers and destroyed the film. »
« Over the next three hundred years, Germanic invaders called the Anglo-Saxons (from whom we get the name "England" itself, meaning "land of angels") from the areas surrounding present-day northern Germany and Denmark invaded, raided and settled in England. »
« Meanwhile, a series of invasions began in the post-Carolingian era. Arab invaders called Saracens raided the lands of southern Europe, even conquering Sicily in the 9th century, while a new group of steppe raiders, the Magyars, swept across Europe in the 10th century, seizing land and settling in present-day Hungary. »
« The Vikings were known by other names for the people they raided, from the Middle East to France: the Franks called them "pagani" or "Northmen", the Anglo-Saxons "haethene men", the Arabs "al-Majus" (sorcerers), the Germanic tribes "ascomanni" (shipwrights), and the Slavs of what would become Russia the "Rus" or "Varangians". »

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