• 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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    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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    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, 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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    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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