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Captain

Name: Captain – Great Britain factsheet records
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Great Britain · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records

1768–1904Date range

3Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1768

James Cook1768

Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Appointed Commander of the HMS Endeavour in the south Pacific

1834

James Clark Ross1834

Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Appointed Captain

1904

Robert Falcon ScottSeptember 1904

Balmoral Castle · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Scott was quickly promoted to Captain, and invited to Balmoral Castle to meet King Edward VII, who invested him as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

Robert Falcon Scott1904

Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Appointed Captain

Names involved

James Clark RossJames CookRobert Falcon Scott

Provenance

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