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Sep 15, 2024 · David Thompson, the explorer, is a classic book written by Charles Norris Cochrane. The book tells the extraordinary story of David Thompson, a Canadian explorer who played a crucial role in the exploration and mapping of North America during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Thompson's remarkable journeys took him across vast territories ...
Sep 16, 2024 · The river was explored by Simon Fraser in 1808 and was named for David Thompson, an explorer and geographer erroneously credited with having reached its upper course.
5 days ago · The North West Company sought further explorations firstly by David Thompson, starting in 1797, and later by Simon Fraser. More expedition took place in the early 1800s and pushed into the wilderness territories of the Rocky Mountains and Interior Plateau and all the way to the Strait of Georgia on the Pacific Coast expanding British ...
5 days ago · David Livingstone (1813–1873) is a Scottish explorer and missionary who sought to convert the locals to Christianity and expand British colonization, all the while discovering lakes and rivers within Africa's interior. Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) was an explorer of the polar regions.
5 days ago · Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE FRGS FRSGS (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
3 days ago · Two weeks of testimony suggested the company responsible for an experimental deep-water submersible that imploded, killing five people, either recklessly ignored warning signs in the name of ...
Sep 3, 2024 · Was David Thompson, NH's first known white settler, born in Scotland or in England?
Sep 4, 2024 · Antietam: Landscape Turned Red: In September 1862, David L. Thompson was a Private in Company G, 9th Regiment ("Hawkins' Zouaves") New York Volunteers. His Regiment, led by LCol. Edgar A. Kimball, was part of MGen. Burnside's Ninth Corps on the far left of the Union line along Antietam Creek.
Sep 13, 2024 · These days, it feels as if you can't go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement about some new technological development (realized or scheduled) related to space exploration.
5 days ago · In the case of Charlotte Small as an example, if it weren’t for her, David Thompson wouldn’t have lived long enough to achieve the accolades he is known for.”
