The idea was later championed by Jeremiah Reynolds, a newspaper editor, who took it upon himself to promote the expedition at the expense of the American government (a request ultimately denied).
In order to fulfill France's expansionist aspirations, the French foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotaux, promoted an expedition of 150 men eastward from Gabon in 1896, under the command of Jean-Baptiste Marchand.
Between 62 and 67, according to Plinius the Elder and Seneca, Nero promoted an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile River.
Xander Paumgarten, a publicist who helped to promote a 2000 expedition by Jacques Cousteau's son Jean-Michel, told me, "There's this all-out battle between these guys.
Though he was no seaman, Chabot took some interest in his duties as admiral of France and did much to promote Jacques Cartier's expedition to Canada.
Now here I am -- learning and growing even more as part of the Mountain Bike (MTB) Ayiti team promoting adventure expeditions and eco-tourism in Haiti.
The ninth Panchen Lama, who spent the last 14 years of his life in China, tried to promote a Chinese military expedition to Tibet to enable him to defeat his rivals there.
In promoting the Iraq expedition as a necessary response to an immediate terrorist threat, however, they have failed to prepare the American public for what looks to be a long and costly engagement in the Middle East.
He was trained to be a missionary to convert the Orthodox Slavs to Roman Catholicism and made a short expedition to Moscow to promote the unification of the two churches (1647).
But Hastings promoted and financed expeditions to hunt American Indians for profit and sport.
