James cook brief biography of benjamin
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When Benjamin James Cook was born in 1760, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, James Richard Cook, was 50 and his mother, Sarah Patience Rawls, was 40. He married Nancy Dixon Webb about 1780, in Effingham, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Monroe, Alabama, United States for about 12 years. He died on 27 February 1846, in Macon, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in El Dorado, Union, Arkansas, United States.
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Captain James Cook: His Life, Career, Death and Contributions
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CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
Captain James Cook (1728 –1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean. He claimed possession of Australia and New Zealand and for England, established modern standards in sailing and among other things introduced tattooing ro the West before he killed by local people in Hawaii. There is an arrow in a museum storeroom in Sydney reportedly made from Cook’s shinbone.
Cook was a British Royal Navy officer and displayed great talent in leading men. His voyages "elevated exploration to a science" He made detailed maps, explored much new territory and developed a cure for scurvy, the scourge of transoceanic voyages. He achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and did the first
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James Cook
British explorer and naval officer (1728–1779)
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CaptainJames CookFRS (7 November [O.S. 27 October] 1728 – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded europeisk contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He served during the sju Years' War and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the St. Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec, which brought him to the attention of the A