The assistance thus secured was numerically small, amounting to no more than ten thousand men, not a thirtieth part of his native force; but it formed, together with the Greek mercenaries from Egypt who went over to him afterwards, the force on which he placed his chief reliance, and to which the ultimate success of his expedition was mainly due.
The name Al-Manṣūrah (Arabic: "the Victory") apparently dates from this battle, which contributed significantly to the ultimate defeat of the Frankish expedition.
Although the Yellowstone Expedition was an ultimate failure and expensive to the U.S. Treasury, the Johnsons escaped political ill will in their home district because the venture was seen as a peacekeeping endeavor on the frontier.
In the ultimate illustration of such bad fishing expeditions, the team applied those same techniques to "prove" that a dead salmon has brain activity.
That plan also called for developing the technologies that would support human expeditions to Mars, our ultimate destination in space.
So while the film, written and produced by Liesl Clark, contains some breathtaking vistas, that ultimate view, although it has been filmed by other expeditions, remains just out of reach for tonight's armchair adventurers.
Messner recounted the adventure in Everest: Expedition zum Endpunkt (1978; Everest: Expedition to the Ultimate).
They do not all specifically mention Jerusalem as the ultimate goal; however, it has been argued that Urban's subsequent preaching reveals that he expected the expedition to reach Jerusalem all along.
On his expedition's website, Miura explained his attempt to scale Everest at such an advanced age: "It is to challenge (my) own ultimate limit.
Describes the tumultuous expedition.
