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The Arctic Regions and Polar Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century; With the Discoveries Made by Captain McClintock as to the Fate of the Franklin Expedition

The Arctic Regions and Polar Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century; With the Discoveries Made by Captain McClintock as to the Fate of the Franklin Expedition


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1860 Excerpt: ... follow him through all his subsequent period of active naval service, in which he displayed conspicuous zeal and activity. But we find him taking part at the battle of Trafalgar, on the 21st of October, 1805, on board the Eellerophon, where he was signal midshipman. He was confirmed as Lieutenant on board the Bedford, 74, 11th of February, 1808, and he then escorted the royal family of Portugal from Lisbon to South America. He was engaged in very arduous services during the expedition against New Orleans in the close of 1814, and was slightly wounded in boat service, and for his brilliant services on this occasion was warmly and officially recommended for promotion. On the 14th of January, 1818, he assumed command of the hired brig Trent, in which he accompanied Captain D. Buehan, of the Dorothea, on the perilous voyage of discovery to the neighbourhood of Spitzbergen, which I have fully recorded elsewhere. In April, 1819, having paid off the Trent in the preceding November, he was invested with the conduct of an expedition destined to proceed overland from the shores of Hudson's Bay, for the purpose more particularly of ascertaining the actual position of the mouth of the Coppermine River, and the exact trending of the shores of the Polar Sea to the eastward of that river. The details of this fearful undertaking, which endured until the summer of 1822, and in the course of which he reached as far as Point Turnagain, in latitude 68 19' N, and longitude 109 25' W., and effected a journey altogether of 5550 miles, Captain Franklin has ably set forth in his "Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-22," and which I have abridged in preceding pages. He was promoted to the rank of Commander on the 1st of January, 1821, and reached ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150163043
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Edition: Abridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 231 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1150163046
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 122
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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