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Example sentences for: raiding

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With the Dutch concentrating once more on Java and the Moluccas in the 18th century, the Bugis took advantage of the vacuum by raiding Perak and Kedah, imposing their chieftains in Selangor and becoming the power behind the throne in Johor.
In the early tenth century Viking raiding parties from Scandinavia began skirmishing with the Celtic tribes along the coast.
During the American War of Independence, France’s sympathies were undisguised: American ships were granted safe anchorage in the FWI, privateers raiding from Saint-Barthélemy’s coves sank many a British merchantman, and a Martinique regiment fought the British at Savannah, Georgia.
Fear of repeating the deadly clash between federal agents and Branch Davidian cult members has deterred police from raiding the compound.
To counter this, the populations moved from their homes on the coast and built settlements inland, out of sight of the raiding parties.