It was at Anah that the emperor Julian met the first opposition on his disastrous expedition against Persia ( 363 ), when he got possession of the place and transported the people ; and there that Ziyad and Shureih with the advanced guard of Ali's army were refused passage across the Euphrates ( 36 / 657 ) to join Ali in Mesopotamia ( Tabari i. 3261 ).

While out of office, Thompson organized a " scientific " expedition to search for tree-climbing fish in the South Seas ( actually just a crude attempt to keep his name in the public eye — the expedition never got farther than New Orleans ).

Unfortunately, Lewis never got the opportunity to use kinepox during the pair's expedition as it had become inadvertently inactive — a common occurrence in a time before vaccines were stabilized with preservatives like glycerol or kept at refrigeration temperatures.

Ashley initially led the expedition and Jedediah got his first glimpse of the frontier West coming in contact with Sioux and Arikaras tribes.

His first attempt on K2 was in a 1975 expedition that broke down in disputes and never got above 22, 000 ft.

His expedition against Fort Niagara got no further than the final staging point at Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario in 1755, and the French captured Oswego in August 1756.

For over a month, reporters got " progress reports " from Hughes's " expedition ".

In 1767 Ahmed Shah reached Ludhiana on his last expedition but got no further.

He occupied himself with study of the mythical Terra Australis, and even got a patent for an exploratory excursion ; but it was to be his son who, at the age of 62, eventually equipped three ships and made the expedition.

On 28 September 1878, during Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's expedition that made the whole length of the Northeast passage for the first time in history, the steamship Vega got stuck in fast ice in the Chukchi Sea.

Shannon got lost again August 6, 1805, when the expedition was at the Three Forks.

The REF expedition, which failed to return to Earth against the Robotech Masters, got caught in a war with the Invid on a number of planets, as chronicled in Robotech II: The Sentinels and was unable to send significant aid back to Earth during the Second Robotech War.

However, Kars fell to the Russians on November 28th 1855, the day after Percy arrived in Constantinople, so the expedition was called off before it got under way.

The expedition got reinforcements of 1, 500 men and 36 officials at Saint Helena.

The end result was boots that weighed only 4 lb 4oz and a successful expedition in which no-one who wore the boots got frostbite – a remarkable achievement.

The expedition that came to be known by his name got under way in January 1862, and in early February had made its first conquest, Roanoke Island.

By the time the expedition got under way, the Navy had 20 gunboats, and the Coast Division had nine.

Nonetheless, Bonomi studied in Rome for several months but got into debt and was eventually happy to accept a modestly paid commission to accompany Robert Hay on an expedition, via Malta, to Egypt in 1824.

Against the advice of seasoned Aboriginal fighters, Dollard got the support of the governor of Montreal, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, to organize an expedition west.

Teixeira also had difficulty persuading the natives to stay with the expedition as it got farther from their homes.

Windham managed to gain a few subsidies for the émigrés and got Cabinet support for the failed Quiberon expedition.

At the time Zhang completed his mission, Zhuge was still struggling to take over Mount Qi, which was actually not heavily guarded ; when Zhuge got wind of what happened, he gave up the expedition and forced 1, 000 households of the West County to move to Hanzhong.

During an expedition along the Cape of Good Hope ( Diogo may have originally called it the Cape of Storms ) with Pedro Álvares Cabral and his brother, Dias's ship got separated from the main fleet during the crossing of Cape of Good Hope ( his brother's ship was lost during that crossing ).

In 1819 under royal command he undertook a very successful geological expedition to Bornholm, one of the Danish islands, being one of three scientists in the expedition.

The expedition was under orders to make a swift survey of conditions and then to return to Earth.

A fresh Theban expedition into Thessaly, under Epaminondas resulted, according to Plutarch, in a three-year truce and the release of prisoners, including Pelopidas.

The expedition, consisting of the Grafton, 70 guns, Elizabeth, 74 guns, Europe, 64 guns, and the Iphigenia frigate, sailed on 16 January 1783, under the command of Commodore Robert Kingsmill.

Paoli sent him off on an expedition to Sardinia ordered by France under Paolis's nephew, but the nephew had secret orders from Paoli to make sure the expedition failed.

As Bonaparte's fleet crossed the Mediterranean, it was pursued by a British force under Nelson, sent from the British fleet in the Tagus, to establish the purpose of the French expedition and defeat it.

In 492 BC, once the Ionian Revolt had finally been crushed, Darius dispatched an expedition to Greece under the command of his son-in-law, Mardonius.

The first scientific expedition to Clipperton took place in 1725 under Frenchman M. Bocage, who lived on the island for several months.

Almagro arrived in the New World on June 30, 1514, under the expedition that Ferdinand II of Aragon had sent under the guidance of Pedrarias Dávila.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

He set sail on May 9, 1540, with orders from the Spanish Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to await at a certain point on the coast the arrival of an expedition by land under the command of Coronado.

Baronial unrest in England prevented the departure of the planned 1205 expedition, and only a smaller force under William Longespée deployed to Poitou.

In 1537, Humayun was elsewhere on an expedition, when Sher Khan, a governor under Babur turned against his new master and overran the state of Bengal to established the Sur Empire.

He personally wanted to lead an expedition to seize back Xinjiang to bring it under Chinese control, in the style that Zuo Zongtang led during the Dungan revolt.

In December 1871 he made a second eight month excursion, known as the Hassler expedition under the command of Commander Philip Carrigan Johnson ( brother of Eastman Johnson ), visiting South America on its southern Atlantic and Pacific seaboards.

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.

Another papal expedition sailed to Ireland in 1579 with a mere 50 soldiers under the command of Fitzmaurice, accompanied by Sanders as papal legate.

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.

Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham ( now knighted and RGS President ), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society.

A long-cherished dream of Markham's, it required all of his skills and cunning to bring the expedition to fruition, under naval command and largely staffed by naval personnel.