Sentence examples for disastrous expedition from inspiring English sources

Only a few Spaniards and no Indians survived the disastrous expedition.

The pathology of the Athenians is most clearly manifested in their disastrous expedition to Sicily.

First, Athens undertook a great and disastrous expedition to Egypt (460 454), in ostensible continuance of the fight against Persia.

Hernando de Soto came in 1539, landing somewhere between Fort Myers and Tampa, and led another disastrous expedition, this time through western Florida.

The predynastic period in particular was not really identified as such until the late 19th century, about 100 years after Napoleon's otherwise disastrous expedition to Egypt laid the foundations for Egyptology.

After the death of Pericles during the Peloponnesian War, Athenians allowed his seductive nephew, Alcibiades, then 35, to talk them into wasting most of their remaining military resources on a disastrous expedition in Sicily.

It was Segesta that lured Athens into embarking on the disastrous Sicilian Expedition (416 413).

Baltasar Kormákur's film is based on a disastrous 1996 expedition on which several climbers died.

Nowhere is this more evident than in Thucydides' masterly portrayal of Athens' disastrous Sicilian Expedition as a tragic peripeteia.

Writing after the disastrous Sicilian expedition, Euripides used the device of the alternative Helen to expose the futility of war.

Without basis he blames the Athenians for their disastrous Sicilian expedition in 415 B.C., contrary to the account of Thucydides, because they were "too idealistic about their cause".