French expansion challenged the Hudson's Bay Company claims, and in 1686 Pierre Troyes led an overland expedition from Montreal to the shore of the bay, where they managed to capture some areas.

In 1576, Frobisher managed to convince the Muscovy Company, an English merchant consortium which had previously sent out several parties searching for the Northeast Passage, to license his expedition.

On 3 June 1578, the expedition left Plymouth and, sailing by the English Channel, on 20 June reached the south of Greenland, where Frobisher and some of his men managed to land.

During his second expedition in 1256, he managed to conclude a favorable peace with Bulgaria, which may have plunged the latter into a crisis of leadership.

Cyrus managed to gather a large army by beginning a quarrel with Tissaphernes, satrap of Caria, about the Ionian towns ; he also pretended to prepare an expedition against the Pisidians, a mountainous tribe in the Taurus, which was never obedient to the Empire.

Only one expedition actually penetrated one of the strongholds of E. regnans at Mount Baw Baw but its search was rendered ineffectual by cold and snow and managed to measure only a single living tree — the New Turkey Tree: — before appalling conditions forced a retreat, Carder notes.

While Durrell only made £ 50 from British rights ( Faber and Faber ), he obtained £ 500 from the United States rights ( Viking Press ) for the book, and thus managed to raise money for a fourth expedition to South America in 1954.

Niebuhr studied mathematics for a year and a half before the expedition set out, and also managed to acquire some knowledge of Arabic.

By 1497 John Albert managed to gather 80, 000 men and was preparing for the expedition when Ștefan invaded Galicia and pillaged it.

Although the expedition never managed to return to Iran, being shipwrecked on the journey around Africa, it marked an important new step in contacts between Iran and Europe and Europeans began to be fascinated by the Iranians and their culture-Shakespeare's 1601-02 Twelfth Night, for example, makes two references ( at II. 5 and III. 4 ) to ' the Sophy ', then the English term for the Shahs of Iran.

Felton had been wounded in the duke's disastrously managed military expedition of 1627 against the French at La Rochelle and he held a personal grudge against his victim who, he believed, had corruptly withheld some of his pay and deprived him advancement.

Among these were men whom Plutarch describes as " cowards " which included some high-ranking spartiates who managed to avoid joining Cleombrotus ' expedition previously.

In December the expedition finally managed to capture two Spanish ships at Tenerife.

When permission was finally granted in 1979, an American-Nepalese expedition finally managed to gain the top,

Bjaaland was a skilled carpenter, and on the trip he managed to reduce the prefabricated sledges bought in Oslo ( Scott had bought the same type of sledges for his expedition, although never modified them ) from 88 kg to 22 kg, without reducing their strength notably.

The expedition managed to repair the ship, and early July met with Roebuck and Dorothy, who had come to the Outer Banks few weeks ago.

The expedition by sea was admirably managed, and on the 10th of August the congressist army was disembarked at Quintero, about 20 km.

De Ojeda managed to escape and ran to the bay where he told a passing expedition of the murderous natives.

The Alliance scientists, after numerous tests, found that macaab mushrooms would destroy the implant in Triclops ' mind without causing any damage to his brain and so Luke Skywalker set out on an expedition to the planet Azrid where these mushrooms were found to grow, but the operation to destroy the implant never came to fruition as they found that Triclops had managed to escape from the DRPAC leaving only an impassioned letter to his son, Ken.

He led an expedition to the Hunter Valley in 1801 and up the Paterson River ( later named in his honour by Governor King ) and in 1804 led an expedition to Port Dalrymple, in what is now Tasmania, exploring the Tamar River and going up the North Esk River farther than anyone previously had managed to do.

The conditions were hard but nevertheless the expedition still managed to collect a significant amount of scientific data including a full year of meteorological observations.

At Manipur, the Burmese expedition force again managed to drive out the pesky Manipuri raja, who again fled into neighboring Cachar and Jaintia.

The Morgan brothers ' initial expedition was halted at a large lake, which they later managed to cross by coracle.

Peter first sent an expedition to Tunis in 1280 under Conrad de Llansa designed to re-establish his suzerainty.

His brother-in-law Napoleon I then appointed him commander of the expedition to re-establish control over the French colony of Saint-Domingue ( now Haïti ).

A letter from the Council of Fort St. George, states that “ the object of the expedition was not merely to re-establish the British settlements in Bengal, but also to obtain ample recognition of the Company ’ s privileges and reparation for its losses ” without the risk of war.

In order to avoid the expulsion edict against the Jews of Spain, de Torres converted to Catholicism shortly before the departure of Columbus's expedition.

Despite the fact that Lord Southampton's brother-in-law the Catholic Sir Thomas Howard, Baron Arundell and Sir Ferdinando Gorges had funded the spring 1605 expedition to Allen's Island ( in modern day Newfoundland ), designed to establish a colony for British Catholicism, there is absolutely no way that Wingfield or indeed Hunt, ( described by Wingfield as " a man not in any way to be touched with the rebellious humours of a popish spirit, nor blemished with the least suspicion of a factious schismatic, whereof I had a special care " ), could have had Catholic or Non-conformist leanings, the more so in the wake of the previous year's Catholic Gunpowder Plot.

However, in 1793, France adopted as its official unit of length a metre based on provisional results from the expedition.

The discovery was reported in Courrier de l ' Égypte, the official newspaper of the French expedition, in September: the anonymous reporter expressed a hope that the stone might one day be the key to deciphering hieroglyphs.

* Romans make a punitive expedition against the Garamantes – they are forced to have an official relationship with the Roman Empire.

The official report of the expedition has been lost.

" The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behaviour ," states the analysis written by Douglas Russell and colleagues William Sladen and David Ainley.

The official expedition artist was John James Wild.

Though he was not among the civilian scientific staff, Tizard would later help write the official account of the expedition, and also become a Fellow of the Royal Society.

On May 31, in the official journal of the expedition, Marcy wrote about the productive soil, the dense grass, and the vertical red clay banks of a " bold running stream of good water.

Based on this account, British RAF Wing Commander John Foden and four other RAF officers travelled to Greece in 1982 on an official expedition to test whether it was possible to cover the nearly 250 kilometres in a day and a half.

A notary's official report of Cabrillo's inconclusive expedition was lost ; all that survives is a summary of it made by another investigator, Andrés de Urdaneta, who also had access to ships ' logs and charts.

At the beginning he was a minor official of the expedition, but he mutinied and gained control of it, and then rebelled against and defied the Spanish monarch Philip II.

Byrd's third expedition was his first one on which he had the official backing of the U. S. government.

But there is no evidence that Anna was ever in Belize, and if the skull actually had been excavated at Lubaantun it would be hard to explain why none of the official reports mention it, why other expedition members deny that it was found there, and why the publicity-loving Mitchell-Hedges did not publish even a single mention of the skull before the 1950s.

According to the " official " Macross chronology, the SDF-2 Megaroad-01 fleet vanished 4 years later while traveling near the center of the galaxy during the new expedition ( in July 2016 A. D .) and was never heard from again.

When Korean shore batteries attacked two American warships on June 1, 1871, a punitive expedition was launched ten days later after the commanding American admiral failed to receive an official apology from the Koreans.

Li declared Jiangxi as independent and launched an expedition against Qing official Yuan Shikai.

In 1565, reports of huge gold mines in the Cordillera reached the Viceroy of Mexico, which led to the first official Spanish expedition to the Cordillera in 1576.

Most of the plunder was retained by the expedition with some 2500 ( official figures ) religious artifacts, Benin visual history, mnemonics and artworks being sent to England.

The expedition was mounted to avenge the killing by the Binis of an official British delegation that had violated their customs earlier in 1896.

The planned official expedition did not eventuate, and Hume and Hovell decided to make the journey at their own expense.

Sir George Staunton was charged with producing the official account of the expedition after their return.

Napoleon Bonaparte, however, who is said to have been introduced by him to Paul Barras, took him to on his military expedition to Egypt of June 1798 as part of the political economy section of the Institut d ' Égypte, and after the capture of Cairo, he edited the official journal there, the Décade Égyptienne.

* First Ascent: The official Website of the Austrian OEAV Karakoram expedition 1957 on BroadPeak. org

In 1647 Fedot Alekseyev, an agent of a Moscow merchant, organized an expedition and brought in Dezhnyov because he was a government official.