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Example sentences for "expedition against"

  • Now at this time, the men of Sybaris say that they and their king Telys were about to make an expedition against Croton, and the men of Croton being exceedingly alarmed asked Dorieos to help them and obtained their request.

  • But Hermeias was at that time afraid of an expedition further up country, owing to its danger; and was always yearning for the expedition against Ptolemy in accordance with his original plan.

  • These transactions were contemporaneous with Hannibal’s expedition against Saguntum, after his conquest of all Iberia south of the Iber.

  • At this the Romans, in high wrath, sent an expedition against them, which was met by the tribe called the Senones.

  • Thus, Croesus is told that, if he undertake an expedition against Persia, he will destroy a great empire.

  • The assembly had been forced to issue bills of credit; at first to meet the debts incurred by Moore’s expedition against St. Augustine.

  • Under Craven’s prosperous administration, it even seemed likely that the public debt would be liquidated, which had begun with the unlucky expedition against St. Augustine.

  • King Onund replied, that the Swedes were little inclined to make an expedition against Norway.

  • It happened once in the Greek country, when Kirjalax was emperor there, that he made an expedition against Blokumannaland.

  • The summer after King Margad, and Guthorm with him, went out on an expedition against Bretland, where they made immense booty.

  • On his return from an expedition against Arabia, about B.

  • Little Egg Harbor, expedition against, under the command of Captain Patrick Ferguson, ii.

  • The news of this incursion having reached Florence, persons of all classes were seen gathered in parties throughout the city discussing the matter, and nearly all were in favor of an expedition against Lucca.

  • In the ensuing fall John Grey joined Colonel Armstrong's expedition against Kittaning, in hopes of recapturing, or at least gaining some intelligence of, his family.

  • Mainly for the purpose of seizing this vessel, and destroying the one on the stocks, General Dearborn planned an expedition against York.

  • The real designs of the French having been developed in an expedition against Minorca, while they continued to amuse the nation by the terrors of an invasion, produced a declaration of war upon the 18th of May, against that power.

  • Caesar made an expedition against Nursia, among the Sabini, and routed the garrison encamped before it but was repulsed from the city by Tisienus Gallus.

  • The general himself led an expedition against Antiochus on the plea that he had not delivered up the suppliants, but really because of his money, of which he had vast stores.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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