It's really our first foray into this.

So, was China s incursion into Indian territory an error by a local PLA commander?

One junior European officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested.

This action worsened relations with the Chinese, who launched a brief incursion into northern Vietnam in 1979.

Was the Chinese incursion intended to serve as a sort of diplomatic accelerator?

Indeed, almost simultaneously with the PLA incursion, scholars at an official Chinese think tank questioned Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa.

Louis XVIII was not particularly worried by Bonaparte's excursion, as such small numbers of troops could be easily overcome.

Odysseus' account of his adventures After a piratical raid on Ismaros in the land of the Cicones, he and his twelve ships were driven off course by storms.

On 10 April, he led a cattle raid on Banias, but was surprised by Saladin's nephew Farrukh Shah.

On 6 March, Tirpitz , escorted by three destroyers, launched a raid on the British convoys to the Soviet Union.

Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after being condemned for its incursion into Manchuria.

It was Salles's first foray as director of a film in a language other than his native Portuguese (Spanish, in this case) and quickly became a box office hit in Latin America and Europe.

The next day, Iraq launched a ground invasion of Iran along a front measuring in three simultaneous attacks.

Opera also began to be popular in London, and there was significant literary resistance to this Italian incursion.

Number one this incursion into your land these past 20 years, and before, the reason anyone is interested in your land, and particularly the United States, it's oil.

India s parliament, not surprisingly, denounced the Chinese incursion in the harshest possible terms.

Metzengerstein , the first story that Poe is known to have published, and his first foray into horror, was originally intended as a burlesque satirizing the popular genre.

In 447 BC Pericles engaged in his most admired excursion, the expulsion of barbarians from the Thracian peninsula of Gallipoli, in order to establish Athenian colonists in the region.

Kim visited China in April of that year, and met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to ask for military aid.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in South East England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

Israel conducted the recent showdown with Hamas in a regional context that has changed dramatically since its last incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in 2008.

But, in this case, the book is an obscure and rare incursion of Lobato into adult science fiction.

These books were Lissitzky's first major foray in book design, a field that he would greatly innovate during his career.

In 1881, using the pretext of a Tunisian incursion into Algeria, the French invaded with an army of about 36,000 and forced the Bey to agree to the terms of the 1881 Treaty of Bardo (Al Qasr as Sa'id).

China s leaders have yet to explain what prompted the incursion but there is no shortage of speculation.

As well as recording piano rolls, Gershwin made a brief foray into vaudeville, accompanying both Nora Bayes and Louise Dresser on the piano.

After all, one of the lessons of the 1962 war was that a vacillating response to Chinese aggression is self defeating, particularly in situations like that posed by the incursion at Daulat Beg Oldie.

On November 1st, Costa Rican newspaper La Nación reported Government confirms incursion of Nicaraguan Army into national territory,

Earhart subsequently made her first attempt at competitive air racing in 1929 during the first Santa Monica to Cleveland Women's Air Derby (later nicknamed the Powder Puff Derby by Will Rogers).

Field meetings to find interesting species of fungi are known as 'forays', after the first such meeting organized by the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club in 1868 and entitled A foray among the funguses sic .

And Russian President Vladimir Putin s incursion into Ukraine, in the EU s backyard, has turned the common European foreign and security policy into a punch line.

We are missing my mother's story, who made sure with every siren, with every raid, with every cut off of electricity, she played puppet shows for my brothers and I, so we would not be scared of the sounds of explosions.

In response to this incursion, Alfred led an Anglo Saxon force against the Danes who, instead of engaging the army of Wessex, fled to their beached ships and sailed to another part of Britain.

The combined Danish and English forces defeated the Norman garrison at York, seized the castles and took control of Northumbria, although a raid into Lincolnshire led by Edgar was defeated by the Norman garrison of Lincoln.

The Skin I Live In (2011) Identity, creativity and survival, frequent themes in Almodóvar's films, were given another twist in The Skin I Live In , the director's first incursion into the physiological horror genre.

Inspired by the classic children's literature, The Steadfast Tin Soldier , by Hans Christian Andersen, the musical is the third foray into playwriting by Luana Piovani child.

Bismarck conducted only one operation, Operation Rheinübung, a sortie into the North Atlantic to raid supply convoys sent from North America to Great Britain.

Death On 22 July 2003, Task Force 20, aided by troops of the United States Army 101st Airborne Division, surrounded Uday, Qusay and Qusay's 14 year old son Mustapha during a raid on a home in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

As a result, both sides routinely send patrols up to the point where they believe the LAC should be the latest episode being a three week incursion by Chinese troops into Indian held territory that began in April.

In 1179, the castle's garrison assisted Fuas Roupinho to defeat Moorish incursions and attacks on the Castle of Porto de Mós, and in 1187 King Sancho I donated the castle in Alcanede to the militia in Évora (the future Order of Aviz).

On 8 July 1912, forces loyal to the former monarchy, under the command of Henrique Paiva Couceiro, confronted government forces, commanded by Colonel Ribeiro de Carvalho, during the second monarchist incursion.

Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.

He also faced a group of monarchists who were not clear supporters of his claim to the throne one attack was made under a blue and white flag, but without the crown, while Paiva Couceiro himself declared at one time that his movement was neutral and wanted a plebiscite on the form of the new regime.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk (probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo) was located on the area settled by the West Slavic Radimichs tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

Shakira's crossover success also inspired other Latin artists to foray into the English language market and many compared Mexican singer Paulina Rubio's attempt to crossover with her English language debut album Border Girl to that by Shakira.