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The Battle of Sugar Point, or the Battle of Leech Lake, was fought on October 5, 1898 between the 3rd U.S. Infantry and members of the Pillager Band of Chippewa Indians in a failed attempt to apprehend Pillager Ojibwe Bugonaygeshig ("Old Bug" or "Hole-In-The-Day"), as the result of a dispute with Indian Service officials on the Leech Lake Reservation in Cass County, Minnesota.
A chevauchée (French pronunciation:, "promenade" or "horse charge", depending on context) was a raiding method of medieval warfare for weakening the enemy, primarily by burning and pillaging enemy territory in order to reduce the productivity of a region, in addition to siege warfare most often as part of wars of conquest but occasionally as a punitive raid.
On 18 March, the FLR released a list of equipment that they claimed to have destroyed or damaged during the raid, including seven tanks destroyed (including three T-72s) and a T-72 and T-80PVM tank each damaged. [57] Most Western analysts agree that the casualty figures presented by either side are highly inflated. [58]
Four doctors were killed at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in besieged northern Gaza on Friday, after Israeli forces stormed the compound, killing and injuring dozens of people in areas surrounding the ...
Four senior ISIS leaders were killed in last month's U.S.-Iraqi military raid in western Iraq including the group's top operations leader in Iraq and its chief bombmaker for whom the United States ...
A man found 4-month-old and 5-month-old baby girls in a ditch outside his Indianapolis home after they were kidnapped in a vehicle earlier in the day. Man getting packages finds missing babies in ...
During times of peace or truce, these unemployed warriors gathered in bands and lived on pillage and ransoms. In the 14th century, after the Peace of Brétigny -Calais (1360), large armies of mercenaries armies were disbanded, on occasion without receiving their pay.
[4] [5] The SOHR and Western intelligence agencies have previously identified the SSRC as responsible for Syrian chemical weapons and missile development programs. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The former also claimed that Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers had been stationed at the site for the last six years, which Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser ...