In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

Tradition has it that this was the reason for the expedition of Ru, from Tupua ' i in French Polynesia, who landed on Aitutaki, and Tangiia, also from French Polynesia, both of whom are believed to have arrived on Rarotonga around 800 AD.

It has even been reported, although apparently without historical documentation, that Adolf Hitler was influenced by concave hollow-Earth ideas and sent an expedition in an unsuccessful attempt to spy on the British fleet by pointing infrared cameras up at the sky

German sources report that the Emperor has organized an expedition in order to invade Poland.

: The nature of the path is more like an exploration or an expedition than following a path that has already been built.

* October 12 – Christopher Columbus ' expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean and lands on Guanahani, but he believes he has reached the East Indies.

* September 10 – John Lawson, Christoph von Graffenried, 2 African American slaves and 2 Native Americans leave on an exploration expedition from New Bern, and travel north by canoe up the Neuse River ( this event has also been dated September 12, 1711 ).

Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender during which the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely.

Heyerdahl's book about the expedition, The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, has been translated into over 67 languages.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

He also has a South African spider named after him, Araneus drygalskii ( Strand, 1909 ), based on material collected on the Gauss expedition.

The official report of the expedition has been lost.

Historian Farley Mowat has speculated two possible reasons for this: Bylot's lack of education and lower position relative to Baffin in English society, and his involvement in the mutiny during Hudson's expedition.

Madagascar has but one master .” The king died in 1828 while leading his army on a punitive expedition against the Betsimisaraka.

Consequently, Bering's name has since been used for the Bering Strait ( named by Captain James Cook despite knowledge of Dezhnev's earlier expedition ), the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge.

Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu, Directeur des Ports et Arsenaux, stated in the draft of the memorandum on the expedition he submitted to the King: “ the utility which may result from a voyage of discovery ... has made me receptive to the views put to me by Mr. Bolts relative to this enterprise ”.

Legend has it that the founding expedition was confronted by a large group of native Tongva peoples whose intention was to drive the strangers away.

* Andocides, Athenian orator and politician, who has been implicated in the mutilation of the Herms on the eve of the departure of the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415 BC, returns from exile under the general amnesty.

He has strongly urged me not to leave his Ministers in peace until they have introduced a bill for the expedition to Chatham Island .’, Lavaud stated in reply that he thought it better for the penal settlement to be at Banks Peninsula, because of the remoteness of the Chathams and the lack of suitable anchorage there.

The total defeat of the Athenian expedition to Sicily and the consequent revolts of many of the subject-allies has weakened Athenian finances severely ; the acknowledged purpose of the revolutionary movement is to revise the constitution to better run Athens ' finances.

* After learning that he has been condemned to death in absentia, Alcibiades defects to Sparta and Nicias is placed in charge of the Sicilian expedition.

* Reflecting the growing level of discontent with his tyrannical conduct, Dion is assassinated by Callippus, an Athenian who has accompanied him on his expedition to take over as tyrant of Syracuse.

He also has a special affection for the martyred maiden Saint Winifred who lies at the centre of the first book in the series, A Morbid Taste for Bones, ( though this was not originally the novel chosen to launch the chronicles ), in which Cadfael takes part in an expedition to Wales to excavate the saint's bones and bring them to the Abbey in England, establishing it as a pilgrimage site of healing relics.

`` But did the expedition find any records of the Forerunner having been on this planet??

These troops, returning home from a disastrous military expedition to Cyrene in Libya, suspected that they had been betrayed in order that Apries, the reigning king, might rule more absolutely by means of his Greek mercenaries ; many Egyptians fully sympathized with them.

The Amazons are also said to have undertaken an expedition against the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube, where the ashes of Achilles had been deposited by Thetis.

He returned to Italy with Ursicinus, when he was recalled by Constantius, and accompanied him on the expedition against Claudius Silvanus, who had been forced by the allegedly unjust accusations of his enemies into proclaiming himself emperor in Gaul.

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.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier, a member of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khūzestān, Iran ( ancient Susa, Elam ), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

Under Emperor Kammu, Tamuramaro had been appointed as shogun of a military expedition against the Emishi.

He would have been quite young when Emperor Yūryaku shot the arrow which killed his father during a hunting expedition ; and this caused both Prince Oke and his older brother, Prince Ōka, to flee for their lives.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

The accomplished and politically well-connected naturalist Archibald Menzies complained that his servant had been pressed into service during a shipboard emergency ; sailing master Joseph Whidbey had a competing claim for pay as expedition astronomer ; and Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford, whom Vancouver had disciplined for numerous infractions and eventually sent home in disgrace, proceeded to harass him publicly and privately.

From the first Africans that were brought to Lagos for sale in 1444 ( see his contemporary biography by Zurara ), he received from the merchants the value corresponding to the fifth part ( o quinto ) as the expedition had been sponsored by the shipowners.

There were, in fact, no Hull whalers in either of these years, the first Hull whaling expedition having been sent to the island only in 1616 ( see below ).

In 1872, Col. Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr., grandson of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition, traveled to England, visiting the Epsom Derby, a famous race that had been running annually since 1780.

One goal of the expedition had been to locate the Buenaventura River, what was believed to be a major east-west river connecting the Continental Divide with the Pacific Ocean.

He had been instrumental in getting Frémont's expedition reports published by Congress.

Carson's public image as a hero had been sealed by the Frémont expedition reports of 1845.

The route of Lewis and Clark's expedition, up the Missouri River to its headwaters, then on to the Pacific via the Columbia River, may have been influenced by the purported transcontinental journey of Moncacht-Apé by the same route about a century before.

The expedition documented natural resources and plants that had been previously unknown to Euro-Americans, though not to the indigenous peoples.

They are thought to have been constructed by fishing communities: trapping malevolent trolls or winds in the labyrinth's coils might ensure a safe fishing expedition.