These islands' strategic location made them useful from Viking times as a place from which to launch naval raids.

"Joe, since this appears to be a naval raid, it falls in your bailiwick."

Their first recorded naval raid into the Black Sea dates to 1538, with an attack on the fortress of Ochakiv.

These land expeditions were sometimes coupled with naval raids against the coasts of southern Asia Minor.

In 1697, d'Iberville again commanded a French naval raid on York Factory.

During the early months of 1781, British and American forces began concentrating in Virginia, a state that had previously not experienced more than naval raids.

Thus it came that Euphemius, returning from a naval raid against the African coast, learned that he was to be arrested.

New France would wage several naval raids into the bay the following years and almost succeeded in driving the English from this part of the continent altogether.

He is celebrated for his naval raids against the Byzantines.

According to festival organizers, all three groups cancelled their plans in relation to the naval raid.