The first punitive expedition, led by General Josiah Harmar in 1790, was ambushed.
During the course of this punitive expedition, Texas declared its independence from Mexico (March 2).
In 1897 the British mounted a "punitive expedition" against the Kingdom of Benin.
A punitive expedition was launched to bring the killers to justice.
Alarmed by the growing power of the radicals there, the Tokugawa led a punitive expedition against Chōshū in 1865.
In the winter of 324 Alexander carried out a savage punitive expedition against the Cossaeans in the hills of Luristan.
Broken in spirit as well as in health, he died leading a punitive expedition against rebels in Khorāsān.
Thus, in 1874 when a punitive expedition to Formosa (Taiwan) was discussed, Yamagata, though minister of the army, had no voice in the decision.
In 1864 the radical rulers of the fief of Chōshū openly defied the central government, and Keiki successfully mounted a punitive expedition.
Max Eastman, in Enjoyment of Laughter (1936), remarked of a laboured pun by Ogden Nash: "It is not a pun but a punitive expedition".
The Mongol emperor organized a punitive expedition in 1292, but Kertanagara was killed by a Kadiri rebel, Jayakatwang, before the invaders landed.
