Saturday, February 24th, 2007
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was an english naturalist and administrator. He was born in Jamaica in 1781 and he joined the East India Company and rose to become Governor of Java. He afterwards served in Sumatra and founded the settlement of Singapore.
His first posting to south east asia was in Penang where he eventually rose […]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Lord Nelson, as he is called in popular parlance was a great English Naval Admiral of the British Navy. He went into the british navy as a midshipman in 1770. His first voyage was to the WEst indies and the arctic ocean. He commanded the Agamemnon and added to his reputation by his conduct in […]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 and died in the Phillippines in 1521. Ferdinand Magellan was a portuguese navigator who discovered the Magellan Strait and named the Pacific Ocean. In 1519 he set out from Seville on his great voyage of discovery across the Atlantic, around South America and to the Phillippines where he was […]
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Sir Richard Grenville was born in 1541 into an old Cornish maritime family and died in 1591 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He was a famous sailing ship captain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1585 Richard Grenville led an expedition sent to colonise Virginia in America. He was sent out […]
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Vasco de Gama was born in Portugal in 1469 and went to Davy JOnes’ locker in 1524. Vasco de Gama was a portuguese navigator who discovered the sea route to the India round the Cape of Good Hope. His crew mutinied on the voyage, but Vasco de Gama suppressed the rising and himself steered the […]
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Sir Martin Frobisher was born in 1535 and died in 1594. Martin Frobisher was a famous and celebrated british sailor who was one of the first navigators to attempt to discover the fabled North-WEst Passage. He made several expeditions against Spain and was knighted for his services in connection with the defeat of the Spanish […]
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Sire Francis Drake was born in Devon in 1540 and died in 1596. Francis Drake was a great and famous seaman during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. He made many voyages, usually with a letter of marque. He made voyages of exploration as well and distinguished himself by his audacious attacks against Spanish shipping […]
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
William Dampier started his life in 1653 and was gone in 1715. He was an English explorer and reformed buccaneer. In 1688 he gave piracy away and set out on a cruise to the South Seas. His exploration of the west and north of the coast of Australia showed that it was in fact an […]
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Captain James Cook was born in 1728 and was killed in Hawaii in 1779. He was a distinguished english navigator but started out as the son of a humble farm labourer. After sailing before the mast as an able seaman, James Cook signed up for the Navy in 1755. James Cook participated in the capture […]
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