NOUN
- a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
How To Use military expedition In A Sentence
- Entering Aba, you have entered a solemn and stirring chapter to the annals of human military expedition .
- She accompanies a military expedition to the planet where she first encountered the monster, only to end up battling hordes of the creatures. The Sun
- In their Heroic Age the Greeks were fighting in phyle and phratry, the Germanic peoples in tribes and kinship-groups, and the ancient Scots in their clans, each of which could be identified by special insignia during the greater collective military expeditions. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
- By the mid-1920s the nationalist movement dominated much of southern China, and Chiang was able to lead an enormous military expedition which aimed to defeat the northern warlords and reunify China.
- he died in 1655 at sea between Hispaniola and Jamaica, while serving as a commissioner for Oliver Cromwell on a military expedition to retake the island of Hispaniola.
- He led a military expedition against the rebels.
- In some cases, the German government sent mixed civilian and military expeditions to organise evacuation. Refugees in the Age of Total War
- In their Heroic Age the Greeks were fighting in phyle and phratry, the Germanic peoples in tribes and kinship-groups, and the ancient Scots in their clans, each of which could be identified by special insignia during the greater collective military expeditions. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
- In late January, the lower house of Nigeria's parliament called on President Olusegun Obasanjo to request repatriation of objects taken during British colonial rule, especially the "bronzes," sixteenth-century cast brass sculptures and plaques, of which the museum has 50, that were taken by a 1897 British military expedition that deposed the ruler of Benin, a city-state in what is now southeastern Nigeria. Many Happy Returns?
- I suddenly realise that the ambition of my life has been... to go on a military expedition to Constantinople. Times, Sunday Times
