Search results for "Expedition of the Thousand" - New World Encyclopedia
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- :For the later Greek writer see Xenophon of Ephesus. [[Image:Xenophon ... a Greek mercenary, historian and follower of Socrates. In 401 B.C.E. he ...13 KB (2,062 words) - 14:29, 20 May 2023
- The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- was a Welsh privateer, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of buccaneers ... Henry Morgan was the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a squire of Llanrhymny ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- The Battle of the Pyramids was a battle fought on July 21, 1798 between ... treasure to Europe. Ancient Egypt captured the European imagination. Egypt ...11 KB (1,626 words) - 04:44, 11 January 2023
- a Scottish medical missionary and explorer of the Victorian era who traveled ... David Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng, the Qing Dynasty's summer ...12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 2023
- (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan ... The exploits of Yoshitsune and his faithful follower, the monk Benkei ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- The Libyan Desert, also known as Great Sand Sea or Western Desert ... This desert is primarily sand and boulder plain and is inhabited by ...13 KB (2,064 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a U.S. National Park ... Sheer black walls of schist and gneiss plummet as much as 2,700 feet ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 18:04, 31 October 2023
- The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was the North American chapter ... The victory would ultimately prove to be a Pyrrhic one for the British ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 10:57, 11 April 2024
- The Arabian Sea is located in the northwestern part of the Indian ... The Sea provides an important link between the neighboring areas of ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- 1806) was a Scottish physician and explorer of the African continent who explorations ... His career was set in the context of the early days of the European ...19 KB (3,147 words) - 18:22, 10 November 2022
- The Congo River is the largest river in western Central Africa and ... The river and its tributaries flow through the second-largest rainforest ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 19:05, 15 May 2020
- He is known principally for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific ... Balboa traveled to the New World in 1500 and after some early explorations ...34 KB (5,513 words) - 14:37, 3 May 2023
- November 19, 1798), was a leading figure in the United Irishmen Irish independence ... Tone was born in Dublin, the son of a Church of Ireland, Protestant ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- The Cayuga were members of a powerful confederacy of tribes of the ... The Cayuga sided with the British during the American Revolution and ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:34, 3 December 2023
- The Nile is one of the world's great waterways, at 4,180 miles ... Flowing northward from remote sources in the mountains of Ethiopia ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, at the service of Spain, led the ... Magellan was the first to reach Asia by sailing westward from Europe ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig. The ... writing concertos for unusual combinations of instruments, such as multiple ...11 KB (1,648 words) - 06:57, 18 April 2024
- The Strait of Magellan (often referred to as the Straits of Magellan ... The first European to navigate the strait was Ferdinand Magellan, ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
