In early 1897 a Greek expedition sailed to Crete to overthrow Ottoman rule in the island.

In July 1821, he took part to the Greek expedition to Samos and in 1822 to the naval battle of Spetses.

In the late 4th century BC, Alexander the Great sent Greek naval expeditions down the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.

During Darius's Greek expedition, he had begun construction projects in Susa, Egypt and Persepolis.

Telephus was on the Mysian throne when the Greek expedition to Troy accidentally landed there and found themselves fighting fellow "Achaeans."

The unit insignia depicts the Argo, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts, and is representative of the first recorded Greek marine expedition.

However, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, postponing any Greek expedition.

He was a suitor of Helen and the leader of the Euboean force of thirty or forty ships which joined the Greek expedition to Troy.

Homer in the Catalogue makes no mention of the city Lyrcea because at the time of the Greek expedition against Troy it already lay deserted.

There are indications that Greek expeditions were led as far as Kashgar in Xinjiang.