4 sentences with “mistakenly”

The square face: Women with square faces are often mistakenly thought of as inflexible and reserved. Soften your features.

Then, on 10 May, they attacked the Netherlands, Belgium and France, sending the bulk of their forces through a forest on the Franco-Belgian border that the French mistakenly thought was impassable to an army.

Indeed, in 1842, a US naval fleet, mistakenly believing war had broken out, seized Monterey, California, a part of Mexico. Monterey was returned the next day, but the episode only added to the unease with which Mexico viewed its northern neighbour.

For centuries, Europeans mistakenly believed that there was an all-water route across the North American continent. This "Northwest Passage" would allow the country that controlled it not only access to the interior of North America, but also - and more importantly - a relatively quick route to the Pacific Ocean and trade with Asia.