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Meanings of expedition in anglès
A military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country.
Synonyms
Examples for "military expedition"
Examples for "military expedition"
1
He conducted the first military expedition from Virginia that crossed the Alleghanies.
2
In 1852 the inevitable military expedition was followed by the customary permanent post.
3
His idea was to use the threat of a military expedition.
4
They seemed to be fiercely revelling, rather than carrying out a military expedition.
5
If an Arab tribe were recalcitrant, a military expedition was despatched.
1
Don Sancho d'Avila was entrusted with the general care of resisting the hostile expedition.
2
At the age of twenty-one, he accompanied Colonel Beauquette, as a serjeant, in a hostile expedition against the Indians of the north.
3
Similarly, if we control the communications, not only can supplies be conveyed to it, but also no hostile expedition will be allowed to reach it.
4
At all subsequent periods he regarded himself as committed to aid his allies in their hostile expeditions against the Iroquois.
5
Meanwhile, Sir John Sherbrooke, the Governor of Nova Scotia, despatched several hostile expeditions from Halifax against the coast of Maine.
Usage of expedition in anglès
1
The 1953 Everest expedition used the latest technology available at the time.
2
The expedition discovered the ocean's deepest point The animals discovered were extraordinary.
3
Unable use hydroplane at present due low water, objects expedition being attained.
4
But that information was not available to expedition members at the time.
5
A sense that this expedition might not be a particularly wise idea?
6
The expedition will take place between January and March of next year.
7
Will I allow the media access to go on a fishing expedition?
8
Perhaps an expedition had come from North America across the Atlantic ice.
9
There were exactly six days left until the expedition to Hrad Spein.
10
The high point of the expedition was not, however, the endangered woodpecker.
11
Asked why she undertook the expedition, she said there were many reasons.
12
The weather and the elements fought against the French in this expedition.
13
The most renowned heroes of the age took part in the expedition.
14
In the summer, General Sullivan led an expedition into the Genesee country.
15
Account of the arrival of Law expedition: Bib Nat Fran MS 14613.
16
He asked Joy if she had brought any food on this expedition.
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Translations for expedition
Expedition through the time
Expedition across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common
New Zealand
Less common
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