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May 9, 2024 · George Vancouver (born June 22, 1757, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England—died May 10, 1798, Richmond, Surrey) was an English navigator who, with great precision, completed one of the most difficult surveys ever undertaken, that of the Pacific coast of North America, from the vicinity of San Francisco northward to present-day British Columbia.
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Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791–1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Califo...
The Vancouver Expedition (1791–1795) was a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy, commanded by Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy. The British expedition circumnavigated the globe and made contact with five continents.
Mar 4, 2003 · Vancouver, George (1758-1798) By Junius Rochester. Posted 3/04/2003. HistoryLink.org Essay 5359. Email. Share. Tweet. George Vancouver was an important explorer of Puget Sound. He served for 25 years in the British Navy, and commanded the 1791-1792 British expedition to the North Pacific.
A cartoon of the attack, published in London newspapers and distributed as prints on October 1, 1796, further humiliated Vancouver, whose health had been failing since his return from sea. Vancouver’s ailments, likely from malaria contracted in the West Indies twenty years earlier, led to death in May 1798 when he was only forty years old.
The voyage of Captain George Vancouver, 1791 -1795, was commissioned by the British Admiralty to map in detail the west coast of North America from Mexico to Alaska and to meet with Spanish authorities on the coast to enforce the terms of the Nootka Sound Convention of 1790.
Captain George Vancouver commanded the British Royal Navy ship Discovery in 1791 on a four-year journey that surveyed and mapped the American Northwest coast. Vancouver also searched for the Northwest Passage , a navigable waterway rumored to flow from the West coast of America leading to the continent's Eastern seaboard.
