10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERRAID»
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counterraid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Two Spirits: A Story of Life with the Navajo
... if it were yesterday, when some Mexican men raided our settlement and stole
ten of our best horses. Our bravest young man, the one the Mexican officials
called Segundo, was so mad he planned a counterraid on the nearby Mexican
town.
Walter L. Williams, Edwin Clark Johnson, Toby Johnson, 2005
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The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan ...
More often, they incur reprisals in which it is the avenging victim who performs
the more striking role, through a poetic justice that has to be matched by a well-
flavored account. The pattern of raid and counterraid reproduces in certain
structural ...
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Tribal and chiefly warfare in South America
mamo have been known to launch a counterraid the day after an attack upon
their village (Chagnon 1983:71; Smole 1976:49; Valero 1984:342, 419-420).
Most raids occur during the dry season, when intervillage travel is relatively easy.
He rushed north, personally led a raid to kidnap the heiress of Provence at
Marseilles, was foiled by a counterraid by Charles of Anjou. protested noisily to
the pope, and withdrew. Hailed as a hero of Christendom for his conquest of
Valencia ...
E. Michael Gerli, Samuel G. Armistead, 2003
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Almanac of American Military History
Thus, for a 10—year period the Republic of Mexico and the breakaway Republic
of Texas carried on a desultory border war of raid and counterraid, with neither
side able to win a decisive victory over the other. Hoping to make good its claim
to ...
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England and Scotland at War, C.1296-c.1513
Just as fijifteenth-century warfare had been characterised by raid and counterraid
, so in the early sixteenth century it was the private resources and clientage
networks of the great lords that defijined the character of crossborder conflict.
Andy King, David Simpkin, 2012
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Wall Street: A History, Updated Edition
The takeover had turned into a typical stock exchange raid and counterraid
between the two most notorious manipulators of their day, Drew, the great bear
raider, and Vanderbilt, the master of the cornering operation. Vanderbilt prevailed
...
9
Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science
but now they realized the Germans might mount a counterraid to capture British
radar sets on the coast.20 The time had come to evacuate, the more so since the
Experimental Division alone now had a staff approaching 1,000. ASE transferred
...
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We are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs ...
The description of a raid and counterraid for a woman on the 1950s Rand is
remarkably similar to a 1990s battle near Carletonville. 'Mè OW joined the
Marashea in the late 1940s and vividly recalls a kidnapping-related battle: The
alarm was ...
