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It’s Official The Strategicorps Theme for Origins 2007 is GREAT RAIDS!, Past Present, and Future
Here are some suggestions to spur your creative juices and lets get those events in!
Historical or Historically Based
Ancients
Egyptian Raid on Avaris 1540 BC
Saxon Raids 50 AD
Visigoth Raids On Roman Empire 340 AD
Barbarian Conspiracy (Picts, Scotti-Irish, and Teutons) in Britain 367
Atilla The Huns Raids Roman Empire 375
Visigoths at Pollenza 402
Viking Raids 793-1066
Medieval
Crusaders at Arsuf 1189
Pre-19th Century
Sir Francis Drake at Cadiz 1587
French and Indian Raid on Schenectady, NY 1690
Navahos, Apache, and Cherokee Raids on Pueblo Indians 1691
Captain Kidd Off India 1698
The Deerfield, Massachusetts Raid 1704
Pirate Raids on Charleston 1700?
Blackbeard at Georgetown, SC 1732
Kirghiz Raids 1771
John Paul Jones off Britain 1778-9
19th Century to World War I
95th (Sharpes) Rifles in Spain 1809*
Indian Raids on San Marcos Texas 1812
The Cossacks at Hamburg 1813
Murray’s Raid on Burlington 1813
Texas Raid into New Mexico 1841
Indian Raid on Fort San Bernadino, CA 1851
John S. Mosby at Fairfax Courthouse 1863
Morgan’s Raid in to Indiana and Ohio 1863
St. Albans Raid 1864
Cushing’s Raid on the CSS Albermarle 1864
Early’s Raid on Washington 1864
Fennians Raids On Canada 1866/1870
George Custer on the Washita River 1868
Lincoln County War 1878
U.S. Fleet raids Spain 1898*
Koos De La Rey in the Transvaal 1899-1902
World Wars
Poncho Villa Raids Columbus, NM 1916
Trench Raid 1916
German Battlecruiser Raids on England 1916
Lawrence of Arabia at Aqaba 1917
Zeebrugge and Ostende Raids 1918
Paraguayan force vs. Bolivian Border Fort 1928 (Gran Chaco War)
Untouchable Raid on Liquor Convoy 1937
Gunther Prein’s U-Boat raid on Scapa Flow 1939
Eben Emael 1940
Force H at Oran 1940
Pearl Harbor 1941
3rdf & 4th Commandos at Lofoten Island Norway 1941
5th Commandos At Madagascar 1942
Doolittle Raid 1942
Makin Island 1942
Commandos on Channel Islands 1942
Raid on Tobruk 1942
British Commandos at St. Nazaire 1942
1st Rangers at Djebel el Ank 1942
Dieppe 1942
First Chindit 1943
Secon Schweinfurt 1943
Otto Skorzeny at Budapest 1944
Cabanatuan Raid 1945
Post World Wars
Israelis at Mount Carmel, Haifa 1947
Inchon Islands 1950
Alpha 66 in Cuba 1962
Belgan Paratroops at Stanleyville 1964
Israelis at Green Island 1968
Son Tay POW camp 1970
Marines and the Mayaguez 1975
Rhodesian Scoouts at Chicombidzi, Mozambique1976
Entebbe 1977
Desert One 1980
Mercenary Coup in Seychelle Islands 1981
South African Elites vs SWAPO in Angola 1982
Mercenary Raid on Laotian POW Camp 1982
Mogidishu, Somalia 1993
Indian 9th and 10th Commandos at Kargil 1999
Target of Value, Baghdad 2006*
Fantasy/Science Fiction Ideas
Borderwatch of Furundy (Dungeons and Dragons)*
Freefall on Pluto (Starship Troopers)*
Frontier Skirmish (Call To Arms)*
Lance Ahead (Battletech)*
Reaver Raid on the Firefly (Serenity)*
Urban Sweep (Battlefield Evolution)*
Also available
Great raids in History: From Drake to Desert One by Samuel A. Southworth (editor)
