Sentence examples for expeditions to the West from inspiring English sources

Thereafter Paterson continued agitation for new expeditions to the West Indies.

Of humble origin and poorly educated, he was a shipbuilder in Boston before embarking on several treasure hunting expeditions to the West Indies.

Elsewhere in the Public Vaults, I checked out some stereoscopic "3-D" photographs taken on survey expeditions to the West in the late 1800s, including some taken on John Wesley Powell's expeditions to the Grand Canyon.

The current exhibition, "Only One Man Died: Medical Adventures of the Lewis and Clark Trail," commemorates the bicentennial of the expedition to the West Coast.

Champlain was probably born a commoner, but, after acquiring a reputation as a navigator (having taken part in an expedition to the West Indies and Central America), he received an honorary if unofficial title at the court of Henry IV.

Commissioned by President Jefferson, the two Captains departed in 1804 from St . Louison an expedition to the west.

A traveller called Demetrius of Tarsus related to Plutarch the tale of an expedition to the west coast in or shortly before AD 83.

A traveller called Demetrius of Tarsus related to Plutarch the tale of an expedition to the west coast of Scotland in or shortly before AD 83.

In the best-known version, he returns to Norway after an expedition to the west; he is killed in the second version.

His final expedition to the West took place in 1894, when he prospected for dinosaurs in South Dakota and visited sites in Texas and Oklahoma.

Sir Walter Raleigh, having only just been released from the Tower of London, received a commission from Queen Elizabeth I for an expedition to the West Indies.