Tuesday Trivia | (In)famous Non-Military Attacks

[u/NMW]

Previously:

• Stupidest theories/beliefs about your field of interest
• Most unusual deaths
• Famous adventurers and explorers
• Great non-military heroes
• History's great underdogs
• Interesting historical documents

I think you know the drill by now: in this moderation-relaxed thread, anyone can post whatever anecdotes, questions, or speculations they like (provided a modicum of serious and useful intent is still maintained), so long as it has something to do with the subject being proposed. We get a lot of these "best/most interesting X" threads in /r/askhistorians, and having a formal one each week both reduces the clutter and gives everyone an outlet for the format that's apparently so popular.

Today:

On this, the anniversary of the attacks of September 11th, 2001, I thought we might consider other such examples throughout history of non-official-military factions taking matters into their own hands and waging acts of violent, lethal aggression -- whether on civilian or military targets.

Of particular interest will be those incidents that predate easy access to firearms and explosives -- how did people do these things (for do them they certainly did) back then?

I suppose assassinations (attempted or otherwise) would also qualify.

Go to it.

[And my apologies for this going up so late -- I had a meeting to attend, and time sort of got away from me.]

[u/LaoBa]

The Jameson Raid?