The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder.

Discovered by accident by the Reisner expedition, the burial was intact, though the carefully sealed coffin proved to be empty.

Reynolds went on an expedition to Antarctica himself but missed joining the Great U. S. Exploring Expedition of 1838 – 1842, even though that venture was a result of his agitation.

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

Polar bears are believed rarely to travel beyond about 82 ° North owing to the scarcity of food, though tracks have been seen in the vicinity of the North Pole, and a 2006 expedition reported sighting a polar bear just from the Pole.

Even though this war was won by a pan-Greek army, credit was given to Sparta, who besides being the protagonist at Thermopylae and Plataea, had been the de facto leader of the entire Greek expedition.

In 1673, an expedition headed by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, though possibly not the first Europeans to visit the area, was the first recorded to have crossed the Chicago Portage and travelled along the Chicago River.

Qin state first sent a military expedition into central China in 672 BC, though it did not engage in any serious incursions due to the threat from neighbouring tribesmen.

* 1336 — Possible first expedition to the Canary Islands with additional expeditions in 1340 and 1341, though this is disputed.

Even though Lewis and Clark had only traveled a narrow portion of the upper Missouri River drainage and part of the Columbia River drainage, these were considered the two major rivers draining most of the Rocky Mountains, and the expedition confirmed that there was no " easy " route through the northern Rocky Mountains as Jefferson had hoped.

It had been a long and expensive expedition, costing 15 men and souring relations between Russia and her native peoples: but it had provided useful new ( though not perfect ) insights into the geography of Eastern Siberia, and presented useful evidence that Asia and North America were separated by sea.

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 ).

The French court adopted the concept ( though not its author, Bolts ), leading to the dispatch of the Lapérouse expedition.

In 1646, Thomas Francis was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

In 1646, Thomas was put in command of the French expedition sent south to take the Tuscan forts, after which he was to advance further south to Naples, drive out the Spanish and put himself on the throne of the kingdom ; but the expedition set off late, and when he besieged Orbetello, the supporting French fleet was defeated by the Spanish and he was forced to raise the siege and conduct a difficult retreat, which he performed so poorly that Cardinal Mazarin subsequently despised his command ability, viewed him as incompetent, and declined to appoint him to the expedition that France sent to support the Naples revolt late in 1647 ( this did not stop Mazarin from considering him as a potential candidate for a French-backed King of Naples, though Paris was so slow to move on this that Henry II, Duke of Guise was adopted by the Neapolitans instead ).

Kimon, who returns to favour, though not to power, in Athens, plans an expedition to help Cyprus.

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.

Powell's group recommended any new community be named Escalante in honor of the explorer, even though the 1776 expedition never reached the remote valley.

In the second book of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Nemo comes close to revealing his Indian ancestry, though this is not obvious except in retrospect, in a scene where he saves a Ceylonese fisherman while on a pearl-diving expedition in the Gulf of Mannar.

He then passed from that post to being commander-in-chief of an army corps that Napoleon meant to send to Portugal to force it to renounce its alliance with England, though that expedition never took place.

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

Despite multiple victories and an initially successful expedition into Syria, mounting conflict in Europe and the earlier defeat of the supporting French fleet by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of the Nile decided the issue.

He initially backed Hernán Cortés's famous expedition to Mexico, but pulled back his support before the expedition was scheduled to launch because of his personal enmity for Cortés.

Although initially Britain did not actively intervene, the presence of a sizable French army near the border of the Austrian Netherlands compelled the British to send an expedition to help defend the territory of their Austrian ally in 1742.

On arrival in Nigeria in December 1903, Trenchard initially had some difficulty in getting his Commanding Officer to allow him to lead the upcoming expedition and only replaced his superior by going over his head.

He initially backed Cortés's expedition to Mexico, but because of his personal enmity for Cortés later ordered Pánfilo de Narváez to arrest him.

Instead of fighting the Eastern Han expedition on the battlefield, Gongsun tried to repel them by assassinating their generals — and he was initially successful, assassinating Cen and Lai and temporarily causing the Eastern Han forces to halt.

Although initially meant for service in France, with the rest of the Kitchener New Armies, it was detailed to be sent to the Mediterranean as reinforcements for the Anglo-French expedition at Gallipoli.

As a result, after this expedition he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel and given authority to raise his own regiment, which became known as Butler's Rangers, initially with a strength of eight companies.

An expedition from the Boston area arrived in 1636 led by Captain John Endicott, and the island initially became part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which in 1658 sold the island to a group of men headed up by Endicott, who had led the 1636 expedition.

He initially named the river " Unknown River ", due to the source and course of the river still being unknown to him, and later " Paul's River ", after one of his trappers who died on the expedition and was buried on the river bank.

The cape was first reached in May, 1742 by an expedition on land party led by Semion Chelyuskin, and was initially called Cape East-Northern.

Nikon produced a 6 mm circular fisheye lens that was initially designed for an expedition to Antarctica.

It is initially explained to Jack by Optimus as the key to the Ground Bridge power supply, but Ratchet explains to Jack in " One Shall Rise, Part 3 " that it is instead, the key to Vector Sigma, indicating that Optimus senses enough maturity in Jack to hold it in his possession and that Optimus does not plan to come back to the Autobot base after an expedition to the center of the Earth to defeat Unicron.

Cherry's application to join the expedition was initially rejected as Scott was looking for scientists, but he made a second application along with a promise of £ 1, 000 ( 2009 approximation £ 50, 000 ) towards the cost of the expedition.

The small size of the force at his disposal made him initially reluctant to lead the expedition.

In short, from the data in hand one could make the case that Hernández de Córdoba discovered Yucatán by accident, upon finding his expedition — initially headed on a shorter voyage to kidnap Indians for the haciendas of Cuba — driven from its course by a storm.

While initially sentenced to death by hanging for his mutinous remarks, once ashore, Smith is pardoned by Captain Christopher Newport ( Christopher Plummer ), the leader of the expedition.

While the prospects for the settlement are initially bright, disease, poor discipline, supply shortages, and tensions with the local Native Americans ( whom Newport calls " the naturals ") place the expedition in jeopardy.

The ship was initially built as the Starre in 1615 and renamed the Jason by Sir Walter Raleigh for use in his second expedition to Guiana ( then under control of the Spanish ) in 1617.

Lambert was initially arrested on suspicion of murdering his friend by Brazilian officials but after a concerted campaign in Britain by the Daily Express newspaper, which had financed the expedition, he was released.