Attacked, commando-style

Usage examples of raided.

After the usual formalities they told him that the Algerine pirates had so far raided Marsala and Mazara at the western end of the island of Sicily, and appeared to be making their way eastward.

First, it seemed tragic that people with so little to lose should be raided by the Saracens and second that the only other thing they had to lose, their very lives, should have been taken to be worn out in the galleys and brothels.

At the rate supplies were being raided, they must be getting ready to strike off on their own.

The two ships moved away from the planet they'd raided, boosting toward a safe range for FTL flight.

When your colony was raided, your grandmother's ship was hung with white flags.

Raiders from Ireland were not uncommon in this area, and one elderly trader remarked bleakly that he had moved westward since the Saxons had raided too often and too close to Eburacum for his peace of mind, much less any profit.

They knew exactly where to find more, since they'd raided the patch several times in the afternoon to slake their thirst.

The Italians called them Saraceni, Saracens, and there were few towns along the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea which had not been raided half a dozen times in the last hundred years or so.

Marsilia was a little town just north of Monte Argentario and according to legend the Saracens raided the town.

Ramage thought about calling at the islands to see if they had been raided, but they were almost uninhabited, the haunt of tunny fishermen.

The Saraceni had raided the town in broad daylight, taking about a hundred men and fifty women, and had left to the eastward.

When Ramage compared the dates, he found that Mazara had been raided twelve days after Marsala.

Marsala, yes, they raided there only about five years ago, but not here: they left us in peace until now.

Empedocle had been raided three days before the Calypso arrived, and the frigate had taken a day to get here because of light winds, making four days in all since the raid on Empedocle.

The Irish were Britons, but they had never been ruled by the Romans and for that reason counted themselves better than the mainland Britons whom they raided, harried, enslaved and colonized.