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    in Ireland, John largely followed the route his father Henry II had taken in 1171–72, landing in Waterford and ending up in Dublin. John's expedition built...
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    John's first expedition to Ireland: King Henry II of England knights his son and heir, the 18-year-old Prince John, newly created Lord of Ireland, and...
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    during the reign of king John, was a royal castle built in Ireland. However, as Prince, John's first expedition to Ireland in 1185, saw his direct involvement...
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    expedition to Ireland, known in French as the Expédition d'Irlande ("Expedition to Ireland"), was an unsuccessful attempt by the French Republic to assist...
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    Henry II of England (category Christianity in medieval Ireland)
    the ducal castles in Aquitaine to Henry. Meanwhile, John's first expedition to Ireland in 1185 was not a success. Ireland had only recently been conquered...
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  • Events from the year 1185 in Ireland. Lord: John 25 April–December – John's first expedition to Ireland: King Henry II of England knights his son and heir...
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    in 1185 by Prince John of England, then first Lord of Ireland, during his first expedition to Ireland. It appears to be the first castle built and occupied...
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    sons, John, in 1185 on John's first expedition to Ireland. This was the catalyst for his literary career; his work Topographia Hibernica (first circulated...
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    Charles Frederick Des Voeux (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    1847) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy. He served as mate aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to chart the Canadian...
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    Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...
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    The Burke and Wills expedition (originally called the Victorian Exploring Expedition) was an exploration expedition organised by the Royal Society of...
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  • stock expeditions. A few of his notable successes include his financed and organised expedition to the Spanish main in 1590, the expedition to Cuba the...
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  • John's first expedition to Ireland: King Henry II of England knights his son and heir, the 18-year-old Prince John, newly created Lord of Ireland, and...
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    Wolfe Tone (category Irish prisoners sentenced to death)
    in preparations for a military expedition to Ireland from the Batavian Republic, the French-client successor state to the United Netherlands. However...
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    Ernest Shackleton (category Antarctic expedition deaths)
    February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures...
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    The Irish Confederate expedition to Scotland took place in 1644–1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A force of about 2,000 Irish Confederate troops...
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    ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition who reached the Gulf of Carpentaria. The expedition was the first to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route...
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    history in the region, Bertram de Verdun arriving as part of John's first expedition to Ireland in April 1185. By 1185 he had erected a manor house at Castletown...
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    Francis Crozier (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    disappeared 26 April 1848) was an Irish officer of the Royal Navy and polar explorer who participated in six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. In 1843...
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    1213. John's attempt to defeat Philip in 1214 failed because of the French victory over John's allies at the Battle of Bouvines. When he returned to England...
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    James Fitzjames (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    Egyptian–Ottoman War and the First Opium War. In 1845, Fitzjames was tapped by Sir John Barrow as a potential leader of an expedition to the Northwest Passage...
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  • April – John's first expedition to Ireland: King Henry II knights his son and heir, the 18-year-old Prince John, newly created Lord of Ireland, and sends...
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    The Expédition d'Irlande was a French attempt to invade Ireland in December 1796 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Encouraged by representatives of...
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    Edward Sabine (category 19th-century Anglo-Irish people)
    thanks to the society's recommendations that he was invited to take part that year in Captain John Ross's first Arctic expedition. As the expedition's appointed...
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    The expedition's goal was to reclaim control of mid-coast Maine from the British who had captured it a month earlier and renamed it New Ireland. It was...
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    Tom Crean (explorer) (category Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition)
    major expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911–1913 Terra Nova Expedition. This...
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    Bernard Drake's Newfoundland Expedition in 1585 landed at Saint John's, re-establishing England's claim on the area. St. John's became a base for his operations...
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    boat and sledge, and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas. McClure was born in Wexford in the south-east of Ireland. His father was Captain Robert...
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    Brendan the Navigator (category Articles containing Irish-language text)
    – c. 577) is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is also referred to as Brendan the Navigator, Brendan...
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    Robert O'Hara Burke (category Burke and Wills expedition)
    was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which...
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