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Franklin, John (1786–1847)  Thomas Phillips's portrait of English explorer Sir John Franklin shows him in his uniform as a rear admiral in the Royal Navy. It was a rank he attained towards the end of a career that began with service at the battles of Copenhagen (1800) and Trafalgar (1805). He set out on his final expedition at the age of 59 after seven years as governor of Tasmania. | English naval explorer who took part in expeditions to Australia, the Arctic, and northern Canada, and in 1845 commanded an expedition to look for the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, during which he and his crew perished. |
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Austin, Horatio Thomas
Back, George
Beechey, Frederick William
Bellot, Joseph René
Crozier, Francis Rawdon Moira
Franklin, Jane
Great Bear Lake
Grinnell, Henry
Hall, Charles Francis
Kane, Elisha Kent
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Nares, George Strong
Northwest Passage
Ommanney, Erasmus
Parry Islands
Resolute Bay
Robbins, Frederick C
Spilsby
Weller, Thomas Huckle
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| Andrew Eliot's (a Connecticut revolutionary war spy) relationship to, and exchange of information between, George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Hancock, and Andrew Jackson, Missing Links To The Culper Spy Ring? Volume one in a two-part story of the American Revolution, Rise to Rebellion gives readers the events leading up to the war from the perspectives of Ben Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, and Lieutenant General Thomas Gage. Years later, in a letter to Benjamin Franklin, John Paul recalled that William Young, the Lt. |
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