Sentence examples for expedition fell from inspiring English sources

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With the death of Lamachus in battle some time later, command of the Sicilian Expedition fell into the hands of Nicias, whom modern scholars have judged to be an inadequate military leader.

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Based on an episode from "The Mahabharata," the ancient Indian epic, the film tells the story of two kings, the open-hearted Ranjit (Charu Roy) and the devious Sohat (played by Rai himself) who, during a hunting expedition, fall in love with Sunita (Seeta Devi), the beautiful daughter of a wise man who lives deep in the wild.

Expedition sales fell 12percentt, while Excursion, Ford's largest sport utility, had a 36percentt gain.

Planning the first follow-up expedition then fell upon the capable shoulders of Kew Gardens botanist Jonathan Timberlake.

Scott was a Navy officer and a gentleman who had led an expedition that fell well short of the South Pole because of poor planning and execution.

The next day, they learn that the members of the Sanders-Hardiman expedition are falling into comas, with fragments of a shattered crystal ball found near each victim.

In 1973, Wolf Vishniac, on an expedition to Antarctica, fell off a 500-foot cliff and died.

Placed in command of the northern department, he made preparations for an invasion of Canada, but shortly after the expedition started, he fell ill, and the actual command devolved upon Gen. Richard Montgomery.

Unfortunately, on one of these expeditions, he falls from a tree and one of his own arrows "passes through his eye and into his head like a knife thrust into a cantaloupe".

John's elder sons had now reached the age at which they could become knights, and it was ostensibly on their behalf that he organized an expedition against Ceuta, which fell in a day (August 24 , 1415.

In the summer of 1756 Gage served as second-in-command of a failed expedition to resupply Fort Oswego, which fell to the French while the expedition was en route.

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