NOUN
- a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
How To Use military expedition In A Sentence
- I suddenly realise that the ambition of my life has been... to go on a military expedition to Constantinople. Times, Sunday Times
- It recalls the violence and cruelty of medieval military expeditions to conquer the Holy Land, all done in the name of Christ and with the blessing of the church.
- The military expedition was made up of 100 officers and men.
- Initially these took the form of French military expeditions. Times, Sunday Times
- A new military expedition was launched with the object of proceeding to the second stage of the original plan, now that the first had failed: the Grand Canal was to be cut at Nanjing.
- Professor Breasted calls the clearest and most rational account of a military expedition which has survived from ancient Egypt (Hist. of the Anc. Egyptians, 370); (3) the great Papyrus Harris, a huge roll one hundred and thirty feet long, the longest document from the Early The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- He led a military expedition against the rebels.
- He argued that since the sixteenth century continental military expeditions had played only a minor role in British policy. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
- How else are banks bailed out or military expeditions funded? Times, Sunday Times
- Entering Aba, you have entered a solemn and stirring chapter to the annals of human military expedition .
