Noted for its ruthless guerilla actions, this group of raiders then made a daring invasion of the Union lines and continued to the headquarters of Union Brigadier-General Edwin H.
The raiders were sure to be drunk, it was argued, while the Defence Guard would be sober and acting according to a well-considered plan.
A great descent of Hatti raiders from the north about 1800 B.
It was rumoured down at "the coast" that the leaders of these Touareg raiders were not Africans, and this story appears to substantiate a statement which was, at the time, ridiculed at the Colonial Office in London.
A punitive expedition sent out to attack the raiders marched through the night to Bir Mahadet only to find that the Turks had fled.
The raiders arrived at Lowestoft about midnight and released three bombs, one of which killed two horses.
Neither availed to prevent the loss of life, but they did succeed in driving away the raiders after their first appearance.
It has been hinted that in the case of the Zeppelin raiders she had quietly locked up a number of them without announcing her purpose to the world.
One of theraiders was brought down on March 18, and her crew captured.
Antiaircraft opened fire on the French raiders and they were forced to retire.
Four of the raiders started from the German lines originally, but two were forced to turn back.
There was a panic when searchlights revealed one of the raiders still hovering above the city.
The lights attracted the raiders to this district, where a half dozen bombs were dropped.
Although the raiders had come before, the spectacle had not lost its fascination.
Their coming was expected and when they approached the city searchlights picked them up and kept the raiders in view as they maneuvered above the French capital.
The French antiaircraft guns brought down a number of Fokkers and a Zeppelin in flames at Revigny, but the raiders succeeded in cutting the Ste.
The moon, however, supplied the necessary light to guide the sky raiders to their goal.
Among the most picturesque of these raiderswere the Emden and the Koenigsberg.
The raiders were easily seen and their flight seemed like a flight of swallows as they dived and swerved through the air.
She occupied three groups of German Islands in the South Sea, assisted in driving German raiders from the Pacific, and by her efficiency permitted a withdrawal of British warships to points where they could be useful nearer home.
The exploits of these two German commerce raiders attracted general attention, because they were the exceptions to the rule.
Bunz, the German ex-minister to Mexico, the German consul at San Francisco, and officials of the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd steamship lines evaded customs regulations and coaled and victualed German raiders at sea.
The raiders held, but “the woods were full of Japs, dead.
At first the raiders had little business, and by 4 November elements of the 9th Marines had arrived to join them.
The result of the volleys, the raiders had no means of determining, but they felt sure that some of the bullets had found human marks.
She declared that now the United States had come to the rescue of the world, she had no fear of German raidersor Germans in any other shape or form.
The raiders were returning from a long flight into the enemy's territory when they were attacked by a group of German fighting-planes.
When the German raiders came over Toul he had gone up with the defending aeroplanes, and had brought down an aviatik which he had engaged.
To us of the Regulators it showed that the Raiders had penetrated our designs, and were prepared for them.
As we approached, the Raiders massed themselves in a strong, heavy line, with the center, against which our advance was moving, held by the most redoubtable of their leaders.
They established guards around their squads, and helped beat off the Raiders when their own territory was invaded, but this was all they would do.
Such was the fear of the vengeance of the Raiders and their friends that many who had been badly abused dared not testify against them, dreading midnight assassination if they did.
The Raiders were in good health well fed, used to operating together, and had the confidence begotten by a long series of successes.
As long as we old prisoners formed the bulk of those inside the Stockade, the Raiders had slender picking.
In spite of our company and our watchfulness, the Raiders beat us badly on one occasion.
For awhile men ceased their interminable discussion of escape and exchange--let those over worked words and themes have a rare spell of repose--and debated whether the Raiders would whip the regulators, or the Regulators conquer the Raiders.
The work of arresting the leading Raiders went on actively all day on the Fourth of July.
By evening Key had perhaps one hundred and twenty-five of the most noted Raiders in his hands.
Into the trenches they had left a short time before the raiders made their way, and went to the dugout where they were to report.
However, thanks to the precaution of blackened faces and hands, and to the dark uniforms, the party of night-raiders must have resembled the dead all about them, for no firing followed the illumination of star shells.
He was with our bunch all right, and when he told us he'd been out with the night raiders and had slipped off before reporting back, we told him he'd better report.
Black Kettle, the chief, was an old man, and did not himself go with the raiders to the Saline and Solomon, and on this account his fate was regretted by some.
As a general thing, though, the raiders escaped before relief arrived, and when they had a few miles the start, all efforts to catch them were futile.
It was not the season for successful raiding, and the enterprising Mexican raiders had turned their attention to the business of revolutionizing their own country.
The Mexican raiders are not to be despised in a night affray.
The raiders replied; but their guns would not send a ball so far.
The day passed away, and once more the curtain of night fell, and the Mexican raiders rode in its shadow.
On the morning of the 6th, the raiders mounted their horses and rode west in pairs.
All this time the horses of the raiders were carefully concealed in a thicket by the bank of the stream.
The raiderswere many miles from El Paso now, and the valleys and the hill slopes, and the lower plains were dotted with great herds of cattle.
But certain it is, a mystery, which perhaps may forever remain such, surrounds the personality of one of the daring raiders who accomplished one of the greatest robberies which has yet taken place on any American railroad.
Could the robbers of the former possibly be the raiders into the last-named place?
With the raising of the frontal barrage, the German raiders advanced.
A gas bombardment led the attack, followed by a heavy barrage fire, under which fifty German soldiers attempted to reach the American line; nine of the fourteen raiders were killed outright, four were captured, and one died of wounds.
The adventure was a success, and almost unique in its way, because the raiders had not lost a man or suffered a single casualty.
A German counterbarrage caught the raidersand their captives on returning across no-man's-land, wounding five Germans and six Frenchmen, but no Americans.
Other raiders stayed outside the trenches to protect those who entered them and to shoot any Americans who appeared above the parapet.
As the raidersneared the Americans poured a deadly fire into them, then climbed out of the trenches and engaged them with grenades and in hand-to-hand fighting.
The raidersthen pushed on over the support lines to the reserve lines.
At zero the artillery trench mortar and machine guns opened an intense barrage on the enemy's front, and the raidersat the same time left our trenches and followed the barrage.
The raiders advanced in two parties (each two platoons) through separate gaps in the enemy's wire.
But now you have more than a gang of Meebaw raiders to deal with.
But one black night, in the Moon of Wildfowl, the raiders descended in a torrent and took us unprepared.
The bulk of the raiders had returned, but some were yet to come in.
The air was alive with shrapnel and nearly two-thirds of the raiders were casualties in no time.
Before being laid, the wire was tightly coiled so that it would not lie flat, but would catch the feet of raiders and trip them up.
Sometimes raiders used tunnels, with outlets beyond the barbed wire, but they had to cut their way through the metal brier patches of their opponents.
If it is ascertained that the enemy has but a small force north of the Potomac, then push south the main force, detaching, under a competent commander, a sufficient force to look after the raiders and drive them to their homes.
An aeroplane raid on Paris (6 killed): two of the raiders are brought down.
A German aeroplane raid on London in the early morning (7 killed); two raidersare destroyed.
A German aeroplane raid on Harwich (11 killed): two of the raiders are destroyed.
Paris is attacked by 60 German aeroplanes; four of the raiders are destroyed.
A night raid by German aeroplanes on London (44 killed); five of the raiders are destroyed.
A German aeroplane raid on Ramsgate, Margate, and Dover; three raidersare brought down.
A Zeppelin raid on the east and north-east of England and on London (27 killed); five of the raiders are brought down in France on their return journey.
Confederate raiders were at work along the trade routes of the world in '63, doing much harm by capture and destruction, and even more by shaking the security of the American mercantile marine.
But when theraiders reached it on the eighteenth they found it abandoned and its Arsenal in flames.
Several Southern raiderswere still at large in '64.
To be urged to travel at the risk of capture by German raiders at large on the high seas, that she might rejoin her husband without loss of time, argued that something was seriously wrong.
The difficulties and dangers of a sea voyage only added to the thrill of expectancy, and the contingency of meeting with German raiders on the way, was like having a bit of Marryat's novels in real life; fear was an unknown quantity.
Leastways, blood was found on the pike, an' also on a hat one of the raiders dropped.
The recent bold work of the raiders was guardedly discussed in public, for one did not always know but that a partisan to the cause might be the listener.
I am positive one of the raiders carried him off," insisted the guard.
I don't know, but the Squire's got somebody in his pay who is not only spying on the raiders but on you also.
But remember, the leader of the night-raiders is Jade Beddow.
But for Gregory getting excited and firing before the raiders had gotten in close range, we would certainly have killed or captured some of them, perhaps have bagged the whole band by closing in upon them from each end of the road.
Slave raiders in former years devastated the native villages and forced the Indian to conceal his special trails of refuge.
Some of them were escaped rubber pickers that had been captured by white raiders several years before, and for them a return to the rubber country meant enslavement, heavy floggings, and separation from their numerous wives.
It is appalling to what extent this great region has been depopulated by the slave raiders and those arch enemies of the savage, smallpox and malaria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raiders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
