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    Military writer August Haller claimed in an 1891 treatise Die österreichische Militär-Repetier-Windbüchse that the first ten shots would be effective to about...
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    Domínguez's Expedition to Honduras was an unsuccessful military expedition carried by the Mexican general, Vicente Domínguez in an attempt to re-establish...
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  • The 1851 Honduran Expedition to Nicaragua was a military expedition carried by the Honduran army to return José Laureano Pineda Ugarte to power after...
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    and the leader of the second New Zealand Company's first colonising expedition to New Zealand; one of the founders of Wellington city. As a leader, he...
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    Militar de São Bento de Avis, pronounced [ɐˈviʃ]), previously to 1910 Royal Military Order of Saint Benedict of Aviz (Portuguese: Real Ordem Militar de...
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    The expedition returned to port on August 26, 1601, with only one ship, manned by 45 survivors. A similar incident occurred with the expedition of Admiral...
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    web page Württembergisches Militär-Verordnungsblatt (in German), No. 48, 30 July 1915, p. 413. Württembergisches Militär-Verordnungsblatt (in German)...
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    Mayo and Stokes. In 1914 the Mariano Moreno range was visited by an expedition, however, Francisco Pascasio Moreno already knew of its existence. Argentina...
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  • the only survivor of the Camilo Cienfuegos loyalists sent on a doomed expedition against the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1959. He...
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    The Argentine government joined the Swedish Antarctic Expedition on 10 October 1900. This expedition received support, and in exchange, offered the services...
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