8 sentences with 'expeditions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word expeditions and other words derived from it.
• « Over time, they sent out annual military expeditions and organised conscription, sending out large standing armies of native Assyrian soldiers who went out each year to conquer more territory. »
• « Henry the Navigator sponsored numerous Portuguese expeditions along the west coast of Africa, hoping to somehow seize land or at least find routes to lucrative sources of gold and spices. »
• « Almost immediately after Columbus's return to Spain from his expedition, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain understood the significance of his discovery and actively funded further expeditions and, soon, colonists. »
• « The term "America" was invented by another Italian, Amerigo Vespucci, who was another early explorer (he led two expeditions between 1497 and 1503) and was the first to grasp the vastness of the western hemisphere. »
• « In some cases, such as the early entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, women struck out on their own and conducted experiments and expeditions - Merien made a research trip to South America and did pioneering work on the life cycles of various insect species. »
• « Amidst the failure of Spanish military expeditions to stop the revolutions, in 1820 an alliance of liberal politicians and military officers staged a coup against Ferdinand and began to remake Spain as a liberal state. »
• « In 1841, British expeditions discovered that daily doses of quinine, a drug derived from a South American plant, served as an effective preventive measure against malaria. Thus, as malaria had been the most dangerous tropical disease, Europeans were able to survive in the interior of Africa at much higher rates after the breakthrough of quinine. »
• « In order to support the peoples of the interior and subdue the officials who resisted its authority, the Government Junta in Buenos Aires decided to send military expeditions to the four governorates of Upper Peru and also to Paraguay. »