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Pierre de Brazza by Lisanne Schuller Class of 1997 Pierre Paul Francois Camill Savargna de Brazza was a French explorer who made a name for himself during the Scramble for Africa during the late 1800's. His expedition fueled the French public's desire for heroic activities of imperialism, and helped develop the French Congo. Brazza became a French citizen in 1874, thus all land claimed by him was under the French flag. Brazza traveled up the Congo river. In addition to obtaining land aro ...

Pirates & Privateers Sources · Blackbeard · Drake · Gráinne O'Malley · Captain Kidd Sir Francis Drake, navigator and privateer, is one of the greatest English sea-captains of all time. Revered as a hero in the fight against the Armada and despised as an upstart by the old nobility, Drake epitomizes the self-made Elizabethan privateer, rapacious in the hunt for treasure (especially Spanish treasure) but daring and visionary in exploration. Drake and his crew are remembered as the ...

"If some insist that history must be served, let them remember that the more we come to understand the physical geography of the Arctic Ocean, the more we recognize the phenomena described by Cook but unknown at the time of his journey." Dr. Walter A. Wood, President of the American Geographical Society (1963) "There is no ground to question the validity of Dr. Cook's assertion that he reached the North Pole." Dr. V.S. Koryakin Polar historian of the Russian Academy of Sciences (19 ...

St Brendan's Isle Or: Who Really Discovered America? Maps of Columbus’s time often included an island called St. Brendan’s Isle that was placed in the western Atlantic ocean. Map makers of the time had no idea of it’s exact position but did believe it existed some where west of Europe. It was mentioned in a Latin text dating from the ninth century titled Navigatio Santi Brendani Abatis (Voyage of Saint Brendan the Abbot). It described the voyage as having taken place in the sixth century. Seve ...

TURN BACK TIME .... TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND THE STORY OF ESTEVANICO Index page from Bennie J. McRae, Jr.'s LEST WE FORGET Web Site He was an equal partner in a group of four men that changed the map of the world. Few individuals can make such a claim. He was the first non-Indian to see the present state of Arizona. He blazed the trail that the Coronado expedition would follow later. He did much to allay the unrest of the Indians of Nueva Galicia simply because he was trusted and re ...