The Ocracoke raid, also known as the Attack on the Port of Ocracoke, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn...

Island-Currituck Ferry, the Hatteras-Ocracoke Ferry, the Swan Quarter-Ocracoke Ferry, and the Cedar Island-Ocracoke Ferry. Additionally, a semi-regular...

Thomas Sydney Beckwith arrived in Bermuda to command a force tasked with raiding the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States, specifically in the region...

Chesapeake Bay. The raid captured a number of American vessels and confiscated stores and livestock from the villages of Ocracoke and Portsmouth. Pettipaug...

reached Ocracoke Inlet about 9:00 p.m. on July 11. In short order, the British seized Portsmouth on the south side of the inlet, Ocracoke on the north...

September to marry, threatening to retake the city. In October, Vane sailed to Ocracoke Inlet and met with Blackbeard, perhaps attempting to convince Blackbeard...

Hampton, Virginia on 19 November 1718. Maynard caught up with Blackbeard at Ocracoke Inlet off the coast of North Carolina on 22 November 1718. Most of Blackbeard's...

an extreme measure. Before sailing northward on his remaining sloop to Ocracoke Inlet, Teach marooned about 25 men on a small sandy island about 5 km from...

Abductions (Icelandic: Tyrkjaránið [ˈtʰɪr̥caˌrauːnɪθ]) were a series of slave raids by pirates from Algier and Salé that took place in Iceland in the summer...

[better source needed] Raid at Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina (July 11–16, 1813): A successful British naval operation in the Ocracoke Inlet, capturing a...

Henry Morgan's raid on Lake Maracaibo, also known as the Sack of Maracaibo and the Battle of Lake Maracaibo, was a military event that took place between...

American troops under Col. John Campbell in May, the most notable being the Raid on Port Dover. On June 2, Sir George Prévost, Governor General of British...

to other vessels. A portion of the ship's bow later drifted ashore on Ocracoke island. Wooden timbers from the wreck also washed ashore on Hatteras Island...

in a fierce battle with troops from Virginia on November 22, 1718, at Ocracoke Island. Tim Powers's historical fiction novel On Stranger Tides has fictionalized...

states. European slaves were captured by Barbary pirates in slave raids on ships and by raids on coastal towns from Italy to the Netherlands, Ireland and the...

The Slave raid of Suðuroy was a slave raid by pirates from Northwest Africa that took place on Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands in the summer of 1629. It resulted...

Francisca River on 3 April to carry them off after the raid. The combined English and French raiding parties marched through the forest towards the trail...

lake room to operate on the New York coastline. On June 13 the British raided the nearby Charlotte. With the British landing at Charlotte, the Americans...

The Raid on Gananoque was an action conducted by the United States Army on 21 September 1812 against Gananoque, Upper Canada during the War of 1812. The...

The Raid on Madrid was a small raid by Canadian Militia and Royal Marines on the village of Madrid, New York, during the War of 1812. With the withdrawal...

took approximately half the pirates, marooning the rest, and set sail for Ocracoke. Captain Charles Johnson wrote that Hands was shot in the knee when Teach...

The Battle of Fort Ontario was a partially successful British raid on Fort Ontario and the village of Oswego, New York on May 6, 1814 during the War of...

The Raid on Port Dover was an episode during the War of 1812. American troops crossed Lake Erie to capture or destroy stocks of grain and destroy mills...

The Raid on Havre de Grace was a seaborne raid that took place on 3 May 1813 during the broader War of 1812. A squadron of the British Royal Navy under...

Royal Navy lieutenant who is responsible for Blackbeard's first death at Ocracoke Inlet. Growing up as an Orange County citizen, Tim Powers and his wife...

the Spanish salvage camp from the 1715 Treasure Fleet. After the Florida raid, Jennings and his crew also linked up with Benjamin Hornigold's "three sets...

January 2020. "The Fenian Raid 1866". The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Archived from the original on 30 August 2005. "The Fenian Raid 1866". 23 February 2012...

The Salmon River Raid was a raid conducted by British forces in February 1814 against the recently abandoned American bases along the Salmon River near...

Campeche was a 1663 raid by pirates led by Christopher Myngs and Edward Mansvelt which became a model for later coastal pirate raids of the buccaneering...

the Bristol Channel and held it for five years, using it as a base for raiding expeditions. In 1627, Janszoon used a Danish "slave" (most likely a crew...