The Great War had just ended and the British public would not support another lengthy and costly expedition.

A much larger and costlier expedition had been planned by the early 1590s, after Mendaña had spent years courting favour in Madrid and Lima.

The costly expedition spurred rebellions of a Yunnan official, Song Longji, and the Gold-Tooths (ancestors of the Dai people) in 1301-03.

Zhu Di's successors, the Hongxi Emperor and the Xuande Emperor, felt that the costly expeditions were harmful to the Chinese state.

Largely as a result of the costly military expeditions against the Maya, the expenses of administering the new colony of British Honduras increased, at a time when the economy was severely depressed.

The United States Government after the Civil War financed four costly, long-term expeditions into the West.

Refusing to relinquish the colonies, he was faced with ever more costly and unpopular military expeditions.

When not raising money for costly expeditions, the explorers in this book can sometimes be found talking to themselves.

Although Sandino had been unable to secure any outside aid for his forces, the Great Depression made overseas military expeditions too costly for the U.S.

This and the second campaign had been the costliest military expedition ever undertaken.