Sentence examples for lead an expedition from inspiring English sources

In 1779 Sullivan was commissioned to lead an expedition in retaliation for British-inspired Indian raids in the Mohawk Valley of New York.

At the beginning of the Mexican War, he was ordered to lead an expedition from Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to seize New Mexico and California for the United States.

In 1856 he tried to lead an expedition to release political prisoners held by the Bourbon kings of Naples, but it came to nothing.

In 1803 he received an invitation to greatness from his friend Meriwether Lewis, to help him lead an expedition through uncharted American territory west to the Pacific Ocean.

In 1769 he was invited to lead an expedition to California to observe a transit of Venus but the offer was rescinded because of Spanish bias against the Jesuits.

Solís had made a voyage to the Americas in 1508, before being commissioned to lead an expedition to an area 1,700 leagues (about 5,000 miles) south of the Isthmus of Panama and beyond.

The leading hope of the antipapal Italian Ghibellines, he led an expedition into Italy in 1267 in an unsuccessful attempt to regain Sicily from Charles of Anjou.

His second test came when he organized and led an expedition against the Venetians the next summer.

It was named for George Armstrong Custer, who led an expedition that discovered gold along French Creek in 1874.

The two then led an expedition southward that established a settlement at Fort St . Louison the Illinois River.

In 1903 he led an expedition to Central Asia that resulted in several more important monographs.