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    The Burning Raid was a Union raid conducted in the Loudoun Valley of Loudoun and Fauquier counties in Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War....
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    The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn...
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  • The Raid is a 1954 American Western film set during the American Civil War. It stars Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone and Lee Marvin. It is loosely...
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  • of the American Civil War The burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania The burning of the Shenandoah Valley The Burning Raid in the Loudoun Valley This disambiguation...
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    The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital...
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  • items from tier 11 raids. The release of the Firelands raid was delayed, opening on November 6, 2024. Before the launch of Burning Crusade Classic, Blizzard...
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    The Burning Sun scandal, also known as Burning Sun gate, was a 2019 sex scandal in Seoul, South Korea, which involved several celebrities, including Korean...
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    The Great Locomotive Chase (a portion of the Andrews' Raid or the Mitchel Raid) was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during...
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    Confederate partisan John S. Mosby, and the town was pillaged as part of The Burning Raid of 1864 in retribution for the area's support of Mosby's command. When...
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    Website". www.loudoun.gov. Retrieved August 2, 2022. "Loudoun County Burning Raid and John S. Mosby | History of Loudoun County, Virginia". Retrieved August...
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  • Dissuasion ("Search, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence"), commonly abbreviated RAID (/reɪd/; French: [ʁɛd] ), is an elite tactical unit of the French National...
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  • "Burning Love" is a 1972 song by Elvis Presley, written by Dennis Linde, originally released by Arthur Alexander earlier in 1972. Presley found major...
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    Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France...
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    Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books...
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    The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English warships laid up...
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    and commerce away from the town. The Civil War events, including the Burning Raid of 1864, devastated the area. During the post-Civil War period, Hillsboro...
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    Tony (9 March 2011). "March 9, 1945: Burning the Heart Out of the Enemy". Wired. 1945: In the single deadliest air raid of World War II, 330 American B-29s...
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    States v. Crandall Gag rule Commonwealth v. Aves Murder of Elijah Lovejoy Burning of Pennsylvania Hall American Slavery As It Is United States v. The Amistad...
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    Danish underground supplied a photograph showing the building burning from end to end. The raid had destroyed the Gestapo headquarters and records, severely...
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    Phillip Sheridan had the Loudoun Valley put to the torch during The Burning Raid in response to actions of Confederate partisans John Mosby who used the...
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  • units. The Union response was to ravage the local economy, as in the Burning Raid of 1864. Before the war, most passenger and freight traffic moved by...
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    The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France...
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  • partisans who inhabited it, the Loudoun Valley was put to the torch in The Burning Raid in 1864. It has been said that no county in Virginia that did not witness...
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  • provinces of Europe, made a descent at A Coruña, and began to raid the countryside, burning and pillaging. King Ramiro I of Asturias marched against them...
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    Combahee Ferry Raid". National Museum of African American History and Culture. 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2021-09-01. Stewart, Ryan (2015-07-01). "Burning of Darien...
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    Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public...
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  • World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion set for the MMORPG World of Warcraft. It was released on January 16, 2007 at local midnight...
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    of Loudoun County, and frequently raided their farms. The Union Army also distrusted them. During the "Burning Raid" of November/December 1864, General...
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  • Ulzana's Raid is a 1972 American revisionist Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Jaeckel, Bruce Davison and Joaquin Martinez. The film, which...
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    experienced more terrible outrages than ever the Quantrill raid at Lawrence... There was no burning of feet and torture by hanging in Lawrence as there was...
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