Assertion: baker | /r/CapableOf | lead military expedition
Facets:
value: in 1869
type: TEMPORAL
value: with the object
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In 1869, at the request of the khedive Ismail, Baker led a military expedition to the equatorial regions of the Nile, with the object of suppressing the slave-trade there and opening the way to commerce and civilisation.