Sentence examples for exploratory expedition from inspiring English sources

Some historians see this venture as an exploratory expedition gone wrong.

It is his unshakable belief that any walk or exploratory expedition is much better if it forms a loop.

At first, in his exploratory expedition in July 1874, General Custer deemed the Black Hills worthless – maybe good for agriculture but "infested with Indians".

Before it put a man on the moon, the United States was known for a single exploratory expedition: the 1803 Voyage of Discovery of Lewis and Clark.

In 1584 the Englishman Sir Walter Raleigh received a grant from Queen Elizabeth I to claim land in North America, and he sent out an exploratory expedition that returned with a report optimistic for potential settlement.

Raiding being unprofitable, trading intensified; and nomads found a new or enhanced role as caravan personnel, carrying goods along the Silk Road, which connected China with Syria, after Han Wu Ti's exploratory expedition of 101 bc.

America had some for a while, and photographers like Timothy O'Sullivan and W. H. Jackson, who accompanied exploratory expeditions in the third quarter of the 19th century, depicted it while the West was being won.

In 1690 he was made a boyar (next in rank to the ruling princes) and subsequently was closely associated with the major achievements of the early period of Peter's reign the exploratory expeditions in the White Sea (1694 95), the military campaigns against the Turks at Azov (1695 96), and the shipbuilding projects on the Don River (1697).

We could hardly claim to know the complexity of the planetary systems that lie beyond the asteroid belt, the chronology of the early Solar System, or the wide range of extraterrestrial environments where biological processes might be at work, were it not for the many exploratory expeditions that we have mounted to these far-flung worlds.

As a young army officer, Frémont took part in several exploratory expeditions of the American West in the 1840s.

The search by Europeans for a northern shortcut by sea from Europe to Asia began with the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and continued through the mid-19th century with a long series of exploratory expeditions originating mainly in England.