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Due to the disproportional affect that a raid can have on an enemy, relative to the attacker's strength and the duration of the attack, raids are a favored tactic in irregular warfare. This article contains a list of military raids , not including air raids , sorted by the date at which they started:
It was the only fortification on the Potomac River. Although it mounted twelve or fifteen guns (later increased) which commanded the river below its position, the American Brigadier General William H. Winder, commanding the military district around Washington, feared that a determined naval force could nevertheless blast its way past the fort ...
When other correspondents were captured in the Rangers' raids, they were treated well and given liquor and cigars. Mosby often played up his exploits to gain attention in the press for his unit and to emphasize the fact that the 43rd Battalion was a legitimate military command within the command structure of the Confederate States of America's ...
The Wytheville Raid or Toland's Raid (July 18, 1863) was an attack by an undersized Union brigade on a Confederate town during the American Civil War. Union Colonel John Toland led a brigade of over 800 men against a Confederate force of about 130 soldiers and 120 civilians.
Raid of 904 in Pallars and Ribagorza; Raid on Bone; Raid of the 95th Brigade; Raid on Cartagena (1683) Raid on Dover; Raid on Godfrey Ranch; Raid on Mount's Bay; Raid on Norias Ranch; Raid on Silves (1197) Raid on Sodus; Raid on Tatsinskaya; Crusader raids on the Red Sea; Raid of the Redeswire; Raid on Reghaïa (1837) Raid at Renacer Prison ...
Herndon Station, Herndon Virginia. On March 17, 1863, Captain John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed "The Gray Ghost", raided a Union outpost at Herndon Station in Northern Virginia. The raid was a part of a series of such raids coordinated by Captain Mosby and his raiders in 1863 in areas of Northern Virginia. [1]
Hulver, Richard A. McNeill's Rangers in the Public Memory of Hardy County, West Virginia. West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, 2014, V. 8, no. 1: 21–38. Raiford, Neil Hunter. The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster. McFarland & Company, 2003 ISBN 0-7864-1468-5
The Raid on Richmond was a series of British military actions against the capital of Virginia, Richmond, and the surrounding area, during the American Revolutionary War. Led by American defector Benedict Arnold, the Richmond campaign is considered one of his greatest successes while serving under the British Army. It shocked patriot leaders and ...