7 sentences with 'raiding'
Example sentences and phrases with the word raiding and other words derived from it.
• « Just as the Romans began to consider further territorial expansion, a ferocious raiding band of Celts swooped down and sacked Rome in 389 BC, a setback from which it took several decades to recover. As a result, the Romans vowed never again to let the city fall victim to attack. »
• « The problem for Rome was that most Germanic peoples regarded treaties as something that lasted only as long as the emperor who had authorised them lived; on his death, raiding often followed, as the old peace terms no longer held. The first task the new emperors had to attend to was often to suppress the latest invasion from the north. »
• « In 881, the Great Fleet sacked present-day Holland, raiding inland to Charlemagne's capital, Aachen, and plundering it. »
• « Ultimately, the Vikings became so rich from raiding that they became important figures in medieval trade, trading goods as far from Scandinavia as Baghdad in the Abbasid Caliphate. »
• « The Vikings began travelling up the Russian rivers from the Baltic in the mid-8th century, even before the period of raiding began further west. Their initial motive was trade, not conquest, to trade and collect goods such as furs, amber and honey and transport them south to both Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate. »
• « The war got its name from an incident in 1731 in which a Spanish Coast Guard captain cut off the ear of British Captain Robert Jenkins as punishment for raiding Spanish ships in Panama. Jenkins fuelled the growing animosity between Britain and Spain by showing his ear to Parliament and provoking British public outrage. »