the royal air force carried out Action two bombing Attack raids Attack on sofia , the capital of bulgaria , in retaliation for the attacks Attack on yugoslavia , which ultimately surrendered Surrendering on 17 april .

The IDF had responded Response with artillery fire and air raids Attack .

In the course of the hunt Military_operation there were several raids Attack and false alarms across the region .

In 1814 , one of these raids burned Bodily_harm the capital , but the Americans later repulsed Defending British attempts to invade Attack New York and Maryland , ending invasions from Canada into the northern and mid-Atlantic states .

Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika in 1818 used Using newly acquired muskets to launch devastating Destroying raids Attack from his Northland base into the Bay of Plenty , where local Māori were still relying Supply on traditional weapons of wood and stone .

The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids Attack fought Hostile_encounter throughout New Zealand ( including the Chatham Islands ) among Māori between 1807 and 1837 , after Māori first obtained Getting muskets and then engaged Participation in an intertribal arms race in order to gain Getting territory or seek revenge for past defeats .

In the following years he launched Military_operation equally successful raids Attack on `` iwi '' in Auckland , Thames , Waikato and Lake Rotorua , taking Conquering large numbers of his enemies as slaves , who were put Placing to work Being_in_operation cultivating Cause_to_make_progress and dressing Wearing flax to trade Exchange with Europeans for more muskets .

In 1835 the fighting Hostile_encounter went Motion offshore as Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama launched Military_operation devastating Destroying raids Attack on the pacifist Moriori in the Chatham Islands .

Meanwhile , other Native Americans conducted Action raids Attack against forts and settlements largely unprotected Having_or_lacking_access with the absence of U.S. troops .

Some Ho-Chunk and Potawatomi warriors with grievances against European-Americans took part Dispersal in these raids Attack , although most tribe members tried to avoid Preventing_or_letting the conflict Violence .

The Battle Hostile_encounter of Koziatyn ( also known as the Raid Attack on Koziatyn and Koziatyn Envelopment Besieging ) of 25–27 April 1920 was one of the most spectacular raids Attack of the Polish cavalry during the Polish-Soviet War Military_operation .

according to the bbc , in response Response to rocket fire Use_firearm from the gaza strip , israel launched Military_operation air raids Attack on gaza .

The Narragansetts remained Presence neutral , but several individual Narragansetts participated Participation in raids of colonial strongholds and militia , so colonial leaders deemed Coming_to_believe them to be in violation of peace treaties .

The Carthaginian army under Hannibal Mago besieged Besieging the Dorian Greek city of Akragas in retaliation Revenge for the Greek raids on Punic colonies in Sicily .

The camps were raided Attack after initiatives Statement to end Process_end the six-week sit-ins Social_event by peaceful means failed and as a result of the raids Attack the camps were cleared Emptying out within hours .

The raids Attack were described Statement by Human Rights Watch as `` one of the world 's largest killings Killing of demonstrators in a single day in recent history '' .

the mount hope bay raids Attack were a series of military raids Attack conducted Action by british troops during the american revolutionary war against communities on the shores of mount hope bay on may 25 and 31 , 1778 .

the mount hope bay raids Attack were a series of military raids Attack conducted Action by british troops during the american revolutionary war against communities on the shores of mount hope bay on may 25 and 31 , 1778 .

Homes as well as municipal and religious buildings were also destroyed Destroying in the raids .

although outnumbered , the russians pressured the various family-based tribes into changing Change their loyalties and establishing Creating distant forts from which they conducted Action raids Attack .

Following Motion_directional a series of Tatar raids Attack in retaliation against the Russian advance Cause_to_make_progress , Yermak 's forces prepared GetReady for a campaign to take Creating Qashliq , the Siberian capital .

In 644 at Madinah , Caliph Umar ( Omar ) was succeeded Change_of_leadership by Uthman ibn Affan ( Othman ) , during whose twelve-year rule Armenia , Cyprus , and all of Iran , would be added Cause_to_be_included to the growing Expansion Islamic empire ; Afghanistan and North Africa would receive Receiving major invasions Attack ; and Muslim sea raids Attack would range Cause_to_be_included from Rhodes to the southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula .

The two sides exchanged Exchange air raids Attack on the first day of war Hostile_encounter , but little transpired Coming_to_believe on the Alpine front , since France and Italy had defensive Defending strategies Arranging .

Under the Abbasid Empire , relations became Becoming more normal , with embassies exchanged Exchange and even periods of truce , but conflict Hostile_encounter remained the norm , with almost annual raids Attack and counter-raids , sponsored Supply either by the Abbasid government or by local rulers , well into the 10th century .

over the next fifty years , under the umayyad caliphs , the arabs would launch Military_operation repeated raids Attack into unk asia minor , twice besiege Besieging the byzantine capital of constantinople , and conquer Conquering the byzantine exarchate of africa .

Only after 740 did they begin Process_start to launch Military_operation their raids Attack in an attempt to combat Military_operation the Arabs and take Conquering the lands they had lost , but still the Abbasid Empire was able to retaliate Defending with often massive and destructive Destroying invasions Attack of Asia Minor .

The Arabs also took to the sea , and from the 650s on , the entire Mediterranean Sea became Becoming a battleground , with raids Attack and counter-raids being launched Military_operation against islands and the coastal settlements .

Arab raids Attack reached Arriving a peak in the 9th and early 10th centuries , after the conquests of Crete , Malta and Sicily , with their fleets reaching Arriving the coasts of France and Dalmatia and even the suburbs of Constantinople .

In September , RAF Bomber Command night raids Attack disrupted Hindering the German preparation of converted Change barges , and the Luftwaffe 's failure to overwhelm the RAF forced Causation Hitler to postpone Hindering and eventually cancel Process_end Operation Sea Lion .

Germany proved unable to sustain daylight raids Attack , but their continued night-bombing operations Military_operation on Britain became Becoming known as the Blitz .

Between 1975 and 1988 the SADF staged Hold massive conventional raids Attack into Angola and Zambia to eliminate Removing PLAN 's forward operating bases .

ostensibly to stop Process_end these raids Attack , but also to disrupt Hindering the growing alliance between the sadf and the national union for the total independence for angola ( unita ) , which the former was arming Hold with captured plan equipment , the soviet union backed the people 's armed forces of liberation of angola ( fapla ) through a large contingent of military advisers and up to four billion dollars ' worth of modern defence technology in the 1980s .

Indigenous Australians led by Pemulwuy also conducted Action raids Attack around Parramatta during the period between 1795 and 1802 .

The `` conquistadores '' launched Process_start punitive raids , but the natives abandoned GiveUp their towns and fled Escaping to inaccessible regions .

Allied forces conducted Action many air raids Attack on Japan during World War Military_operation II , causing Causation extensive destruction Destroying to the country 's cities and killing Killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people .

During the first years of the Pacific War Military_operation these attacks Attack were limited Limiting to the Doolittle Raid Attack in April 1942 and small-scale raids Attack on military positions Placing in the Kuril Islands from mid-1943 .

Strategic bombing Attack raids Attack began Process_start in June 1944 and continued until the end Process_end of the war Military_operation in August 1945 .

From June 1944 until January 1945 , B-29s stationed in India staged Motion_directional through bases in China to make Creating a series of nine raids Attack on targets in western Japan , but this effort proved ineffective .

The most commonly cited Adducing estimate of Japanese casualties Catastrophe from the raids Attack is 333,000 killed Killing and 473,000 wounded Bodily_harm .

In addition to the loss Earnings_and_losses of mostly civilian life , the raids Attack contributed Assistance to a large decline Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in industrial production Creating .

The Pakistan Army , which had the backing of Islamists , created Creating radical religious militias – the Razakars , Al-Badr and Al-Shams – to assist Assistance it during raids Attack on the local populace .

The urban areas of Darwin also suffered Confronting_problem some damage Damaging from the raids Attack and there were a number of civilian casualties .

The two Japanese air raids Attack were the first , and largest , of more than 100 air raids Attack against Australia during 1942–43 .

The two Japanese air raids Attack were the first , and largest , of more than 100 air raids Attack against Australia during 1942–43 .

On that day , 242 Japanese aircraft , in two separate raids Attack , attacked Attack the town , ships in Darwin 's harbour and the town 's two airfields in an attempt to prevent Preventing_or_letting the Allies from using Using them as bases to contest Military_operation the invasion Attack of Timor and Java during World War Military_operation II .

On March 8 , 1969 , Nasser proclaimed Statement the official launch of the War of Attrition , characterized Statement by large-scale shelling Attack along the Suez Canal , extensive aerial warfare Hostile_encounter and commando raids Attack .

However , talks Telling were disrupted Hindering by accusations that the Sudanese army launched raids Attack and air strikes Attack against a village , violating the Tolu agreement .

RAF Fighter Command defeated Conquering the German raids Attack .

The Wagon Box Fight was the last major engagement of the war , but native raids continued against travelers and soldiers , the telegraph , and Union Pacific Railway , which was under construction Building .

Most of the raids Attack consisted Forming_relationships of ten men of various ranks , carried Carry_goods by Motor Torpedo Boats and dories , except for one operation , which was an airborne landing .