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However, defeat at the Battle of Salamis would be the turning point in the campaign, and the next year the expedition was ended by the decisive Greek victory at the Battle of Plataea.
Tewodros ' diplomatic efforts, however, ended disastrously with the British expedition of 1868 which concluded with his death.
" Stein's fourth expedition to Central Asia, however, ended in a failure so humiliating that he never wrote about it and seldom referred to it.
In 1871 the Polaris expedition, a US attempt on the Pole led by Charles Francis Hall, ended in disaster.
An 1879 – 1881 expedition commanded by US naval officer George W. DeLong ended tragically when their ship the USS Jeanette, was crushed by ice.
In the meantime in Iberia, which served as the main source of manpower for the Carthaginian army, a second Roman expedition under Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major took New Carthage by assault and ended Carthaginian rule over Iberia in the battle of Ilipa.
Over the years, the power of the Knights declined ; their reign ended in 1798 when Napoleon Bonaparte's expeditionary fleet stopped off there en route to his Egyptian expedition.
Bridger ended up guiding the expedition south over Union Pass then following the Gros Ventre River drainage to the Snake River and leaving the region over Teton Pass.
A preliminary expedition under Mardonius, in 492 BC, to secure the land approaches to Greece ended with the re-conquest of Thrace and forced Macedon to become a client kingdom of Persia.
As part of this new career, Stanley organised an expedition to the Ottoman Empire that ended catastrophically when Stanley was imprisoned.
Though the expedition ended in failure the members of the Uitvoerend Bewind became very nervous in the days before the Battle of Bergen.
* When Probe 17 overflew the South Pole, it passed directly over the place where Captain Scott's expedition ended. this sentence, South Pole is a proper name referring to Earth's south pole
Their expedition started from Banana at the mouth of the Congo River on 19 March and ended in Bagamoyo, Tanzania on 5 December 1889.
Though the Casa de Contratación gave permission to Rodrigo de Bastidas ( 1460 – 1527 ) to again conduct an expedition as adelantado to this area, Bastidas explored the coast and discovered the Magdalena River Delta in his first journey from Guajira to the south in 1527, a trip that ended in the Gulf of Urabá, the location of the failed first settlements.
The expedition lasted 3 years and ended in the sending of the remaining marbles.
Barbarossa's expedition into Lombardy ended in utter failure.
In 1755, he was a wagon driver in General Edward Braddock's attempt to drive the French out of the Ohio Country, which ended the Braddock expedition at what is known as the Battle of the Monongahela.
Baron Riedesel, commanding the Hessians in Carleton's army, noted that, " If we could have begun our expedition four weeks earlier, I am satisfied that everything could have ended this year.
The expedition however ended in a fiasco for England with the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré ( 1627 ).
In April 1863, Brigadier General William L. Cabell led 900 men from Ozark on an expedition that ended at the Battle of Fayetteville.
In 1039, Duncan led a large Scots army south to besiege Durham, but the expedition ended in disaster.
The expedition failed to discover the Northwest Passage and ended in controversy.
The defeat of the Spanish Army ended the immediate prospect of the intended Royalist expedition to England, while delaying the return of the English monarchy for two more years and at the same time necessarily entailed the fall of Dunkirk.
A Federation mission the next year to find and make peace with the Founders ended disastrously, when the peace expedition was captured and subject to hallucinogenic manipulation to test the willingness of the Federation to appease the Dominion.

expedition and October
* October 12 – Christopher Columbus ' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, but he believes he has reached the East Indies.
* October 14 – French troops under the command of Rear Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze land at Ganghwa Island, Korea as part of a punitive expedition against that kingdom for the execution of French Jesuit priests.
* October 6 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Battle of Castricum – Franco-Dutch forces defeat the Russo-British expedition force.
* October 18 – Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland: Anglo-Russian expedition forces surrender in North Holland.
However he soon reversed this rosy assessment, when on October 23, 1854, The Times of London published a report by explorer-physician John Rae of the discovery by Eskimos of the remains of the lost Franklin expedition along with unmistakable evidence of cannibalism among members of the party:
In October 1925, Jung embarked on his most ambitious expedition, the " Bugishu Psychological Expedition " to East Africa.
King John II of Portugal appointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India.
The first major battle of expedition saw the capture of Chen's base in Huizhou on 15 October.
In 1746 a British combined naval and military expedition to the coast of France – the first of a long series of similar ventures which in the end were derided as " breaking windows with guineas " – was carried out during August and October.
This expedition was closely watched by Viceroy and King and on October 2, 1774, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and ordered to lead a group of colonists to Alta California.
The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774
After an expedition of almost a year, the Second Red Army reached Bao ' an ( Shaanxi ) on October 22, 1936, known in China as the “ union of the three armies ”, and the end of the Long March.
Given on 16 October 1732, they amounted only to recreating his first expedition, but with the added task of heading east and finding North America ( a feat which had in fact just been completed by Mikhail Gvozdev, though this was not known at the time ).
He was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a temporary Sub-Lieutenant shortly after his 27th birthday and took part in the Royal Naval Division's Antwerp expedition in October 1914.
Pawnees in a parley with Major Stephen Harriman Long | Long's expedition at Engineer Cantonment, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, in October 1819.
The expedition left Tahiti in early October, swinging to the west and south of the Tubuai Islands and then heading to the south-east before turning east towards the South American coast.
With the assistance of the Nez Perce, the expedition recuperated and constructed burned-out canoes at Canoe Camp in October 1805 and then paddled down the Clearwater, Snake, and Columbia rivers, meeting the Pacific Ocean a month later at present-day Astoria, Oregon.
Nearby is the historical " Canoe Camp ," where the Lewis and Clark expedition built five new dugout canoes and embarked on October 7, 1805, downstream to the Pacific Ocean.
In October, Washington traveled west to review the progress of the military expedition.
On 18 October the expedition saw Point Conception, which they named " Cabo de Galera ".
Cabrillo's expedition recorded the names of numerous Chumashan villages that were present on the California coast and adjacent islands in October 1542 — then located in the two warring provinces of Xexo ( ruled by an " old woman ", now Santa Barbara County, California ) and Xucu ( now Ventura County, California ).
Curzon was a member of the Dardanelles Committee and told that body ( October 1915 ) that the recent Salonika expedition was “ quixotic chivalry ”.
Proceeding to Suez, from where Niebuhr made a visit to Mount Sinai, in October 1762 the expedition sailed to Jeddah, and then journeyed overland to Mocha.
Iturbide responded in a note to Captain General Gainza dated October 19 that " ... the current interests of Mexico and Guatemala are so identical and indivisible, that separate or independent nations cannot be erected without risking their existence or security ..." and ordered the Count de la Cadena to lead a protective expedition to Guatemala, Panama and Campeche to insure their people " enjoyment of their civil liberty and rights as men living in society ".

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