A land raid was a form of political protest in rural Scotland, primarily in the Highlands. A land raid was a form of political protest in rural Scotland...
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Seven Men of Knoydart (category Land reform in Scotland)
1745. Comprising seven ex-servicemen, their claim was to be the last land raid in Scotland. At the end of the 18th-century, a population of around 1...
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The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital...
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Albans Raid was the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. Taking place in St. Albans, Vermont, on October 19, 1864, it was a raid conducted...
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1906, in a sequence of land raid actions, some of the men, the so-called "Vatersay Raiders", returned and took possession of land, claiming that an ancient...
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Benghazi Tel Aviv Entebbe Athens The Entebbe raid, also known as the Operation Entebbe and officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (also retroactively...
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Cambusdoon. In 1948, an unsuccessful land raid was undertaken by the "Seven Men of Knoydart", who attempted to claim land in the ownership of the estate for...
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that the Land Cruiser would be discontinued in North America after 2021. The J200 Land Cruiser has been used in various off-road and rally raid competitions...
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Killing of Osama bin Laden (redirect from 2011 Abottabad raid)
Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating the special mission units involved in the raid. In addition to SEAL Team Six, participating units under JSOC included the...
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The Tasty nightclub raid was an incident on 7 August 1994 during which 463 mostly LGBTIQ+ patrons of the Tasty nightclub event in Melbourne, Australia...
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Community Land Scotland Land raid Elliot, Alison; Watt, John; Ian, Cooke; Taylor, Pip (2014). "The Land of Scotland and the Common Good: Report of the Land Reform...
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execution: "the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood." However, David S. Reynolds wrote, "The raid on Harpers Ferry helped dislodge...
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Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France...
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frequent use of raiding tactics. His first use of raids was during the caravan raids, and his first successful raid was the Nakhla raid. In January 624...
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effectively, with rent strikes and land raids, about their lack of secure tenure of land and their severely reduced access to land. The government responded in...
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Gress, was the scene of several land raids. (See the Coll, Lewis article for more). During the land raids, men raided estates with absentee landlords...
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Lairg Free church 1923 to 1965, Moderator of the General Assembly in 1938 Land raid Gaelic and Norse in the Landscape: Placenames in Caithness and Sutherland...
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The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France...
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Operation Chastise (redirect from Dambuster raid)
Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF...
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The raid on Makin Island was an attack by Marine Raiders of the United States Marine Corps on the Japanese-controlled Makin Island from August 17–18, 1942...
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The Dawn Raid (Malay: Serangan Subuh) was an economic maneuver carried out by Malaysia on 7 September 1981 to reclaim control of Guthrie Corporation, a...
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Isle of Lewis (section Land mammals)
became acute on Lewis during the economic slump of the 1880s, with several land raids (in common with Skye, Uist and Tiree); this quietened down as the island...
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During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine has conducted raids on the Tendra Spit, which is occupied by Russia. The spit is a narrow island off the coast...
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may have captured about 14,000 Muslims, with perhaps one-third taken in land raids and two-thirds taken on captured ships. Ireland was attacked similarly...
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also took part in several land raids and, during the Capture of Guaymas, led a party of 30 sailors on a cannon-spiking raid in the midst of 1,500 enemy...
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criminalised by the Trespass Act 1865. Following the Highland Clearances, land raids occurred across rural Scotland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Rally raid is a type of off-road motorsport event competed with different types of vehicles. Along with shorter baja rallies, rally raid constitutes cross-country...
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the Knoydart estate in a land raid. But after Brocket took legal action to get them evicted, the group agreed to vacate the land as a good faith action...
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The Raid on Combahee Ferry (/kəmˈbiː/ kəm-BEE), also known as the Combahee River Raid, was a military operation during the American Civil War conducted...
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Squatting (redirect from Land invasion)
various land raids in which cottars attempted to occupy land for subsistence farming. In 1948, the Seven Men of Knoydart unsuccessfully squatted land owned...
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