Jacques Cartier Sailed Up the St. Lawrence River. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Jacques Cartier, navigator (b at St-Malo, France, between 7 June and 23 Dec 1491; d there 1 Sept 1557).
Cartier led 3 voyages of exploration to the St Lawrence region in 1534, 1535-36 and 1541-42. He is usually credited with discovering Canada, meaning the small region of Québec he named Canada during his 1535 voyage. Empire of the Bay: Jacques Cartier. Jacques Cartier first set sail for the New World in 1534, when King Francis I of France commissioned a voyage to search for gold, spices and a Northwest route to Asia.
With two ships and 61 men, Cartier explored the St. Lawrence Bay and returned to France with two Native Americans as trophies for the king. A pleased King Francis sent Cartier back the following year with more ships and a bigger crew. Guided by the same two Native Americans he had seized, Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River as far as modern-day Quebec and established a base near a friendly Iroquois village, where his party camped when winter set in. Samuel de Champlain. {*style:<b>Short Biography of the life of Samuel de Champlain - French Explorer and Navigator </b>*} {*style:<b>Facts, Timeline & History about the life of Samuel de Champlain - French Explorer and Navigator </b>*} {*style:<b> 1599 Samuel de Champlain Ship - the St.
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The acknowledged founder of the city of Quebec and the first European to discover the lake that bears his name, Champlain led expeditions deep into areas that would later be known as New York and Ontario. Champlain first traveled to North America in 1603, after establishing a reputation as a skilled navigator in expeditions to the West Indies and Central America. He spent three years in Acadia, a region in what is now Nova Scotia. History - Sir Francis Drake. Francis Drake Biography. English admiral Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe in 1577-1578, helped defeat the Spanish Armada and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan era.
Synopsis. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site - Sir Francis Drake. One of the illustrious figures of the sixteenth century to visit North Carolina was Sir Francis Drake, who came in June 1586.
Like Sir Walter Ralegh, Drake was a Devon man. Born at Crowndale, near Tavistock, about 1543, he was the son of Edmund Drake, a sailor who became a yeoman farmer. In 1549, when the Roman Catholic peasants of the West Country rebelled against the new prayer book, the Drakes, who were Protestants, lost all their possessions and had to seek refuge first in Plymouth and later in Kent, where they lived aboard an old ship. There, the elder Drake preached to the sailors. Because the family was persecuted for its religious beliefs under Mary Tudor, Francis grew up a staunch Protestant. History - Hernando Cortés. Hernando Cortes. Conqueror of Mexico , born at Medellin in Spain c. 1485; died at Castilleja de la Cuesta near Seville , 2 December, 1547.
He was married first to Catalina Xuares, from which marriage there was no issue, and, after her death, to Doña Juana de Zuñiga, niece of the Duke of Bejar. From this union there sprang four children: one son (Martín) and three daughters. History - British History in depth: Captain Cook: Explorer, Navigator and Pioneer. Antarctic Explorers: James Cook. James Cook was born in the Yorkshire village of Marton on October 27, 1728.
His first experience at sea came at the age of 18 when he signed on as a deckhand aboard a Whitby collier carrying coal to London. He became an accomplished mathematician in his spare time and was actually offered a command of his own ship but refused and joined the Royal Navy as a seaman. His talents were soon recognized and after two years he became master of his own ship, the , and was ordered to chart the waters of the St.
Lawrence River in Canada. His work was masterful and the Admiralty recalled him to England and placed him in command of the which was to take a number of scientists to the Pacific Ocean for observance of Venus. The departed England in 1768 and after visiting Tahiti the following year he discovered New Zealand and claimed it for Great Britain. Christopher Columbus. ( Italian C RISTOFORO C OLOMBO ; Spanish C RISTOVAL C OLON .)
Born at Genoa , or on Genoese territory, probably 1451; died at Valladolid , Spain , 20 May 1506. His family was respectable, but of limited means, so that the early education of Columbus was defective. Up to his arrival in Spain (1485) only one date has been preserved. His son Fernando, quoting from his father's writings says that in February, 1467, he navigated the seas about "Tile" (probably Iceland ).
History - British History in depth: Christopher Columbus and his Legacy. Christopher Columbus Biography. “I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day.
Whoever gives himself up to this art wants to know the secrets of Nature here below. It is more than forty years that I have been thus engaged. Wherever any one has sailed, there I have sailed.” “Speaking of myself, little profit had I won from twenty years of service, during which I have served with so great labors and perils, for today I have no roof over my head in Castile; if I wish to sleep or eat, I have no place to which to go, save an inn or tavern, and most often I lack the wherewithal to pay the score.” “They say that there is in that land an infinite amount of gold, and that the people wear corals on their heads and very large bracelets of coral on their feet and arms; and that with coral they adorn and inlay chairs and chests and tables.”
“This island and all the others are very fertile to a limitless degree, and this island is extremely so. Bartolomeu Dias. Bartolomeu Dias (or Diaz) Portuguese Adventurer & Explorer The first European to see the stormy Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa was Bartholomew Diaz (or Dias), a courageous Portuguese sea captain and explorer. Bartolomeu Dias — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts. An Ambitious Plan Almost nothing is known about the life of Bartolomeu de Novaes Dias before 1487, except that he was at the court of João II, king of Portugal (1455-1495), and was a superintendent of the royal warehouses.
He likely had much more sailing experience than his one recorded stint aboard the warship São Cristóvão. Dias was probably in his mid- to late 30s in 1486 when João appointed him to head an expedition in search of a sea route to India. Kids Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia.com articles about Henry the Navigator. Born at Oporto on March 4, 1394, Henry was the third son of John I of Portugal and Philippa of Lancaster. He grew to maturity at a time when John I was bringing to a close a confused period of civil strife and war with Castile and securing Portugal's independence. Prince Henry the Navigator. Born 4 March, 1394; died 13 November, 1460; he was the fourth son of John I, King of Portugal , by Queen Philippa, a daughter of John of Gaunt. In 1415 he commanded the expedition which captured Ceuta, Portugal's first oversea conquest, and there won his knightly spurs.
Three years later he went to the assistance of the town, when it was besieged by a Moorish army, and twice afterwards fought in Africa . Africans in America/Part 1/Prince Henry the Navigator. One night as Prince Henry of Portugal lay in bed it was revealed to him that he would render a great service to our Lord by the discovery of the said Ethiopias...in these lands so much gold and rich merchandise would be found as would maintain the King and the people...of Portugal. P B S : C o n q u i s t a d o r s - C o r t é s.