Now these raids by the Red Fleet under Jellicoe were not just ordinary manoeuvres.
No attempt made by the enemy to counter-attack during the night, beyond a few bombing raids which were easily repulsed.
IN THE END Father met me at the front door and the news was not good, perhaps I was still naïve but I had never thought of losing any of my family, not even during the air raids and I was shocked.
Later on real raids did materialise but by that time we had moved our billets to Bowden Battery, near Crownhill though for a few months we were ferried to and from Hamoaze House by lorry.
There were many air raidson Plymouth, some were minor but there were also some major ones.
In the early days we took advantage of the lack of action by organising mock air raids for the benefit of the Plymouth air defences.
Spitler came on with a machine gun and the position was consolidated and held in spite of heavy shelling by the Bolo armored trains and his desperate raids at night and in the morning, for the purpose of destroying the bridge.
The winter drive of the Reds on the Railroad merged into their spring raids and threats.
These two successfulraids illustrate not inaptly the various phases through which advance patrol work has gone.
These raids are not uncommon events; and there were two or three of them within less than ten miles, sometimes by the enemy's foragers, and sometimes by partisan gangs.
The raids in the vicinity by foragers and guerillas had been the immediate cause of sending the squadron to the locality.
Raids and attacks outside the centre of operations, however daring, have no permanent value.
Hence they will be restricted to attacks on a very limited objective, as in the case of raids or attempts to capture special tactical localities.
On the Lines of Communications raids from the air or land may always be expected in Manoeuvre Warfare, and one flank is usually more vulnerable than the other.
In the later stages of the South African War, however, Night Marches followed by Raids were employed with marked success, particularly in the Eastern Transvaal in November and December, 1901.
He never passed in this direction beyond the limits reached by Assur-bani-pal, and his exploits were restricted to some successful raids against the tribes of Kedar and Nabatsea.
He had been engaged in raids into the Transvaal--raids of the same character as those which, as has been already mentioned, had helped to bring about the collapse of the Republic.
British Government put a stop to Boer raids into Zululand, and confined them to a territory of nearly 3000 square miles; to be known as the "New Republic.
Even thus protected, frequent and daring raids were made by the cruel and fearless savages, whose only dread seemed to be starvation and the on-coming of the white man, and who would go to any lengths to get food.
Plenty of provisions kept coming to the Romans, but Hannibal, not satisfied with the contributions of the allies, made frequent raids upon the Roman villages and cities and sometimes would conquer, sometimes be repulsed.
Hannibal kept making raids all the time before their eyes and doing a great amount of harm, but for some time they were satisfied to preserve their possessions within the walls.
It had once more re-affirmed the value of the battle-cruiser for which the navy was chiefly indebted to Lord Fisher, and it proved to be the grave of the big-scale raids upon our open east coast towns.
Our fleet, if it would proceed with such secondary operations as are essential for forcing a peace, will be driven to such barbarous expedients as the bombardment of seaport towns and destructive raids upon the hostile coasts.
But when Pitt began his raids on the French coast, Anson, who had little faith in their value for military purposes, thought he saw in them definite naval possibilities.
You cannot leave your trade exposed to squadronal or cruiser raids while you await your opportunity, and the more you concentrate your force and efforts to secure the desired decision, the more you will expose your trade to sporadic attack.
They most commonly appear as the flagships of cruiser commodores, or stationed in terminal waters or at focal points where sporadic raids were likely to fall and be most destructive.
To have exhausted our fleet merely to prevent raids leaving Brest which might equally well leave the Texel or Dunkirk was just what the enemy would have desired.
Fenian raids were attempted from the United States, and there was much alarm, though nothing of importance arose from the disturbed condition of affairs.
It was not merely that they were anxious to put an end once for all to the raids of the Turkomans of the great oasis, but they regarded the possession of this region as a great step towards the consolidation of their power in Asia.
Part of what we have was taken in the raids on UIPS ships; the rest is original equipment installed here during the Slingshot build-up.
By itself, much less significant than the raids we've made on UIPS patrols and shipping.
We must move on to a strategy that is more aggressive than petty raids on UIPS shipping or to merely destroy a few of their insignificant patrols.
Had they already run any raids against the Franks and bishops?
Being carried away by the pirates at one of their raids in Touraine, when he was still in his early infancy, he was brought up in their country.
It does not include the B-29 leaflet raids on Japan, in which hundreds of tons of thin paper leaflets were dropped.
After fire raids it would be a madman who would disregard an enemy bomb-warning leaflet without trying to figure out its application to himself and his children.
The great British and American air raids over Europe unquestionably created an intense interest in British and American plans and purposes.
This was preparation for eventual nagging on the topic, "the airraids will get you if you don't watch out!
The next day, the mistake was rectified, and OWI triumphantly planned raids on the jurisdiction of OSS.
Such trifling inconvenience resulted from these perilous raids that it would seem that the Russians were hardly recompensed for the sacrifice of life.
The rigid drill, the alert espionage, the raidsalong the border gave way to the indolence of the barracks and the pastimes of the camp.
In 1910 British prestige had shed its last rag in Somaliland: we had withdrawn to the coast and the Mullah's horsemen actually rode through Berbera bazar on one of their raids and withdrew unscathed.
The incident is worth noting in view of remarks made by a popular fiction-monger in one of his latest works, that indiscriminate aerial raids on civil centres in England are on the same level of humanity as naval bombardments.
The fortifications were kept up largely to afford protection against raids from Mexican pirates and hostile Indians, though they were often useful against more civilized foes.
Gradually, however, there became a shortage of marriageable women, and this resulted in mysterious raids being made on neighboring settlements.
Various conjectures were exchanged as to the fate of the mate, whose ignorance of the events incidental to gambling raids was expected to prove very inconvenient to him in a variety of ways.
Raids are attacks on a small scale, and on a definite portion of the enemy's line.
In raids and trench work a handy instrument is the trench dagger--a knife of about nine inches long, ending in a handle that has openings for the four fingers to go through, thus serving as a "knuckle duster.
By Arab raids among the negro tribes, costing the death, in battle or on the march, of four or five for one that reaches the Nile or the Red Sea.
To realize the enormity of the wrong let us fancy him abandoning his stronghold in the railway carriage and adventuring his raids on terra firma.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
