Odysseus helped raid Troy, and later raided the city of Ismarus, of the people known as the Cicones.
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Sailed from Troy on his way home after a raid on Ismarus,
It is possible to form a raid and attack cities to kill the leader of it; in fact, it's part of the PvP achievements to kill the leaders of all enemy cities. This will award you with a special mount as well.
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They like to raid cities and countrys.
Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle led 16 bombers on a bombing raid through Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
You can get into a raid by applying to become part of a raiding guild on your realm, or sometimes people are looking for extra members of a raid (often called puggers) advertised in main cities in trade chat.
Ismarus is a city or island in the story "The Odyssey". There Odysseus and his men go there after the long battle in Troy to party and raid the people over there.
He describes odysseus as master of land and seaways, raider of cities, son of laertes and the gods of old, and blue girdler of the islands
In The Odyssey, after leaving Troy, Odysseus and his men land on the island of the Cicones. They raid the city and take what they want, but the Cicones fight back and defeat them. Many of Odysseus' men are killed, and they are forced to retreat to their ships and sail away.
Air raids are where planes fly over cities or towns and bomb them. There is no raid as such, but the place is bombed. This is why there are places called air raid shelters, either steadily built above ground or dug in below ground where people could hide from the bombing.
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