Sentence examples for great expedition from inspiring English sources

In 415 Athens turned to the third and most aggressive operation of the period, the great expedition against Sicily of 415 413, better known as the Sicilian disaster.

It was this confused world that Louis II wished to dominate in his great expedition of 867 871, but he failed.

On Sept. 7, 1921, at Upernavik, he began the great expedition during which he planned to visit every Eskimo tribe from Greenland to the Bering Strait.

To recover Helen, the Greeks launched a great expedition under the overall command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, king of Árgos or Mycenae.

Mr Bonner, and many other colonial folk throughout Voss's great expedition, try to fix Laura's mind on the practical benefits of protein-rich Australian society.

Timur set out before the end of 1399 on his last great expedition, in order to punish the Mamlūk sultan of Egypt and the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I for their seizures of certain of his territories.

"Students go on great expeditions that teach leadership skills and endurance," says Wills. "It's part of the college's ethos.

Most conveniently, the other white men on his first two great expeditions all died along the way, cared for by their benevolent leader to the end, in Stanley's telling.

British interest in the region had first been aroused by the missionary-explorer David Livingstone, who crossed Zambia during three great expeditions between 1853 and his death, near Lake Bangweulu, in 1873.

In his three great expeditions to the Pacific between 1768 and 1779 he surpassed all previous European voyagers to that ocean in the accuracy of his maps, finally pinning down the locations of fabled islands as well as encountering many unknown to European geography.

This may be the greatest expedition of our time.