This is not a war, let alone one of self-defence, but a punitive expedition aimed at maintaining the siege and illegal military occupation.
Conversely, 500 black loyalists who escaped initially to Nova Scotia chose in 1791 to join a British expedition aimed at establishing a free black settlement at Sierra Leone, a planned new promised land.
Four years later, during an expedition aimed at subduing the Chukchi people, Ivan Fyodorov and Mikhail Gvozdev sailed east from Cape Dezhnyov, discovered Cape Prince of Wales, and explored the coast to the vicinity of Nome, thereby becoming the first Europeans to see any part of Alaska.
Eddies entering Omani shelf waters from the central Arabian Sea have been the subject of a specialized expedition aimed at studying the role of eddies in the structure and functioning of the pelagic ecosystem of the western Arabian Sea (Piontkovski and Banse 2006).
John undertook in 1327 an expedition aimed at Kraków, which he was compelled to abort; in 1328, he waged a crusade against Lithuania during which he formalized an alliance with the Teutonic Order.
Loudoun's plan for the 1757 campaign was submitted to the government in London in September 1756, and was focused on a single expedition aimed at the heart of New France, the city of Quebec.
Already, the company has been working to offer ways to virtually visit famous landmarks, natural and man-made wonders, and more through its "Expeditions" program, aimed at bringing virtual field trips to schools. .
In Gunther's piece, he copies the line from the press release verbatim: "participated in one of the few expeditions solely aimed at understanding the abundance of plastic debris".
Part of his Sahara expedition was aimed at raising money for a charity to help bring clean water to Africa.
This week, in a letter to Smith, Johnson described Smith's 18-month inquiry into NSF's grantsmaking process as "a fishing expedition" aimed ultimately at reducing NSF's funding of the social and behavioral sciences.
