In 1598, a Dutch expedition consisting of eight ships, under the orders of admirals Jacques Cornelius Van Neck and Wybrandt Van Warwyck, set sail from the port of Texel, Netherlands towards the Indian subcontinent.

The expedition, consisting of eleven ships and 1, 357 men under the orders of Admiral Corneille came into the bay, which they named “ Rade des Tortues ” ( literally meaning " Harbor of the Tortoises ") because of the great number of terrestrial tortoises they found there.

In 1544 Valdivia sent a naval expedition consisting of the barks San Pedro and Santiaguillo, under the command of Juan Bautista Pastene, to reconnoiter the southwestern coast of South America, ordering him to reach the Strait of Magellan.

On 27 May 1577, the expedition, consisting, besides the Ayde, of the ships Gabriel and Michael, with an aggregate complement of 150 men, including miners, refiners, gentlemen, and soldiers, left Blackwall, and sailing by the north of Scotland reached Hall's Island at the mouth of Frobisher Bay on 17 July.

On 15 December 1796, the expedition, consisting of forty-three sail and carrying about 14, 000 men with a large supply of war material for distribution in Ireland, sailed from Brest.

The second expedition, consisting of climbers from British Columbia, made their attempt from the southeast.

The British expedition, consisting of John Hartog, Joe Brown, Tom Patey and Ian McNaught-Davis, came from the Chagaran Glacier on the west side of the peak and reached the summit via the Northwest Ridge first on July 6, five days before the French team (: fr: Guido Magnone,: fr: Robert Paragot, André Contamine, Paul Keller ) climbed the mountain from the east.

Eager to press on to Monterey Bay, Portolà and his expedition, consisting of Father Juan Crespí, sixty-three leather-jacket soldiers and a hundred mules loaded down with provisions, headed north on July 14, 1769.

The naval expedition, consisting of one gunboat and four boats, set out from Iquitos on June 29, 1911, four months after departing Chiclayo.

The climbing team, consisting of Boardman, Chris Bonington, Al Rouse and Joe Tasker, was supplemented by cameraman, Jim Curran, and a medical team carrying out research on the effects of altitude on expedition members.

On December 4, 2006, Team N2i, consisting of Henry Cookson, Rupert Longsdon, Rory Sweet and Paul Landry, embarked on an expedition to be the first to reach the historic pole of inaccessibility location without direct mechanical assistance, using a combination of traditional man hauling and kite skiing.

The historic ' Glasshouse ' museum building, located in kibbutz Nahsholim, some 500 m south of the site itself, now houses the Center for Nautical and Regional Archaeology at Dor ( CONRAD ), consisting of the expedition workrooms and a museum displaying the finds from Tel Dor and its region.

The mountain was first climbed in 1950 by a Norwegian expedition consisting of Arne Næss, P. Kvernberg, H. Berg, and Tony Streather.

Between the years 1838 – 1842, the expedition, consisting of six government ships, traveled 87, 000 miles and collected a large assortment of horticultural and botanical specimens.

In addition, Sir David Baird in command of an expedition of reinforcements out of Falmouth consisting of 150 transports carrying between 12, 000 and 13, 000 men, convoyed by H. M. S.

In November 1873, a second expedition consisting of 13, 000 troops led by General Jan van Swieten was dispatched to Aceh.

The first ascent of Kongur Tagh was completed in 1981 by a British expedition consisting of Chris Bonington, Al Rouse, Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker.

This permission was granted after some haggling over terms, and the expedition consisting of three ships under Hernández de Córdoba's command left the harbor of Santiago de Cuba on February 8, 1517, to explore the shores of southern Mexico.

SIR, -- I have the honor to report, that at the request of Commodore R. F. Stockton ( who in September last assumed the titled of Governor of California ), I consented to take command of an expedition to this place – capital of the country – and that on the 29th of December, I left San Diego with about five hundred men, consisting of sixty dismounted dragoons, under Captain Turner ; fifty California volunteers, and the remainder of marines and sailors, with a battery of artillery.

An archaeological expedition by the Israel Antiquities Authority led by Joseph Naveh of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found a cave consisting of three chambers cut into the chalky limestone.

Emperor Charles V, who was also King of Spain, granted to Juan Sebastian Elcano, the surviving commander of the Ferdinand Magellan expedition that first circumnavigated the world, an augmentation of arms consisting a world globe with the words Primus circumdedisti me ( Latin: " You first encircled me ").

The field expedition team, consisting of Annika M. Felton, Adam Felton, and Ernesto Cáceres, were the first researchers to film and record this species, previously unknown to science.

The Portuguese expedition was a large one, consisting of 47 canoes powered by 1, 200 natives and Negroes to transport 70 fully armed Portuguese soldiers and their cargo of food, weapons, ammunition and barter goods.

Saula was discovered by a freelance explorer expedition consisting of Saul Repnin, Vadim and Anton ( the surnames of the second two are not stated anywhere ) in 2141.

In 1760 he went out to the East Indian station, and served in the Grafton under Captain Hyde Parker ( 1714 – 1782 ) during the three following years, when he saw some active service, including a cutting-out expedition at Pondicherry.

* 1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole ( 3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians ) sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.

Between 1925 and 1927 the " Meteor " expedition gathered 70, 000 ocean depth measurements using an echo sounder, surveying the Mid atlantic ridge.

Canning left Perth in March 1908, along with 30 men, 70 camels, four wagons, 100 tonnes of food and equipment and 267 goats ( for milk and meat ), and travelled the route again to commence the construction of well heads and water troughs at the 54 water sources identified by his earlier expedition.

The expedition set out in her name with five ships, each measuring 70 feet ( 21 m ) long bearing several sails and accommodating 210 men that included sailors and 30 rowers.

In 1755 he participated in the abortive relief expedition to Louisbourg under Dubois de La Motte, and was involved, onboard L ' Heros 70 off Louisbourg.

Because of failing health, the civil war in Chinese Turkestan, and a long period of captivity, Sven Hedin, by then 70 years of age, had a difficult time after the currency depreciation of the Great Depression raising the money required for the expedition, the logistics for assuring the supplying of the expedition in a war arena, and obtaining access for the expedition ’ s participants to a research area intensely contested by warlords.

On the 1521 expedition, Gordillo and de Quejo had kidnapped about 70 natives, including one named Francisco de Chicora when baptized.

In response, Henry Batman ( John Batman's brother ) led an indiscriminate punitive expedition against 70 – 80 Aborigines ( men, women & children ) living in 9 large huts on the Werribee River, killing an unrecorded number.

Consisting of 70 teachers, students, and other interested parties, the members of the expedition planned to skin dive along the coast of Spain and Morocco, seeking evidence of the lost island.

To raise funds for his expedition, he sold a charter of liberties to the burgesses of the town of Poole in 1248 for 70 marks.

According to Menzies, Admiral Hong Bao charted the coast over 70 years before Columbus as part of a larger expedition under the famous Chinese explorer and admiral Zheng He to bring the world under China's tribute system.

A recent study of journals and death records, however, indicates no statistical difference between the ages at death of those who had entered the tomb and of expedition members who had not ; indeed, most of the individuals lived past age 70.

Robert authorized the Spanish Templars to lead a naval expedition of about 70 ships against Lisbon, but this also ended in defeat.

Silas Talbot engineered an expedition to Puerto Plata harbor in the Colony of Santo Domingo, a possession of France's ally Spain, on May 11, 1800 ; sailors and marines from the USS Constitution under Lieutenant Isaac Hull captured the French privateer Sandwich in the harbor and spiked the guns in the Spanish fort.

Impressed with the human and material bounties yielded by the first expedition, they commissioned Columbus for a second expedition, and provided 17 ships, some 1, 500 soldiers, cavalry, and weapons ( cannon, crossbows, guns, and attack dogs ).

The warriors knew that the expedition had traded guns to their enemies, the Shoshone and the Nez Perce.

Major Anderson prepared his guns at Sumter when he heard the Confederate fire, but the secrecy of the operation had kept him unaware that a relief expedition was in progress and he chose not to start a general engagement.

The expedition was the largest and best-equipped to go to Africa ; a 28-foot steel boat named the Advance was designed to be divided into 12 sections for carrying over land, and Hiram Maxim presented the expedition with one of his recently invented Maxim guns, which was the first to be brought to Africa.

After witnessing the power of their guns, the human tribe does not want the expedition to leave, and tries to keep them there.

The expedition also included about 100 Hessian jägers, a small number of artillerymen, three six-pound guns, and a howitzer, all of which were divided between the battalions.

In 1875 he was given an important command in the expedition against the Khanate of Kokand under General Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman, showing great capacity in the action of Makram, where he outmanoeuvered a greatly superior force and captured 58 guns, and in a brilliant night attack in the retreat from Andijan, when he routed a large force with a handful of cavalry.

Subsequently serving with the Navy during the Tripolitan War, Thorn volunteered to take part in the hazardous expedition to destroy the captured frigate Philadelphia, which lay beneath the guns of the defended Tripoli harbor.

The small size of swivel guns enabled them to be used by a wide variety of vessels, including those too small to accommodate larger cannons, and also permitted their use on land ; they were commonly issued to forts in North America in the 18th century and Lewis and Clark took one with them on their famous expedition into the American interior in 1804.

While serving therein, he commanded a boat expedition that cut out several war junks from under the guns of a fort at Zuron Bay, Cochin China.

The fleet also lacked siege guns and cavalry — items that had been lavishly laid on in the Spanish Armada expedition of the previous year — which raises serious doubts about the intentions of those in charge of the preparations.