Biography of J CUK

James Cook is a military man, a navigator, a pioneer, a researcher. Born on October 16 on Saturday. Place of birth: Marton, England. Planet: Venus. Element: Air. Stone: Beryl. The prevailing character traits are tolerance, aesthetics, sentimentality. Temperament: melancholy. He died on September 14, on Tuesday, at the age of 51. The cause of death: killed. Place of death: Hawaii, USA.

Awards: Medal of Kopli. Do at least once that according to others, you are not on the shoulder. After that, you will never pay attention to their rules and restrictions. Cook James James Cook - - the famous English traveler, cartographer, captain of the Royal Navy, head of the world -ce -free research expeditions to study the world ocean. The childhood of James Cook The future navigator was born in the family of a poor farm laborer.

Later, the father of the family was entrusted with the position of manager in one of the farms, and the family affairs were recovered. James was the youngest of five children. From the age of eight, the boy studied at school, now in this old building in the village of Great Auton-the J. Museum. Thirteen -year -old teenager James finished his studies and began to work on a farm under the direction of his father.

James Cook's marine career James Cook - Jung, sailor, boatswain young man tied life with the sea from the age of eighteen. For three years he served Yunga on the merchant ships of the Waker brothers, which prayed between the British ports. During this time, he thoroughly studied the sciences necessary in navigation - geography, navigation, mathematics, read many stories about travel.

Then J. Cook leaves the Walker service, but two years later, at their request, he returns and receives an offer to become the captain of the local trade ship. For the reason known to him alone, James Cook refuses a good position and enters a simple sailor on the royal fleet warship. Soon it becomes a boatswain. In - gg. James Cook participated in the battles of the Seven Years War. An important stage in his sea career was the study and mapping of the River of St.

Lawrence. This was necessary to capture Quebec with a British fleet. Cook brilliantly coped with a difficult and very responsible task. Research expeditions by Captain J. Cook has become one of the reasons for the appointment of James Cook as the head of around the world expeditions. The first of them lasted from the GG. The official task was astronomical observations, a real, secret goal - to study the eastern coast of Australia and the search for an unknown continent.

Having rested only three weeks after the first expedition, James Cook was sent to the second, also extended for three years.

Rushing with research was forced by competition with France, which sent one expedition after another to the southern seas. The goal was to master the islands suitable for colonization, and the same southern mainland. As a result, several Pacific islands were opened and it was proved that there is no southern continent suitable for settlement. The third expedition was to find the waterway connecting the two oceans on both sides of the North American continent.

This time several islands were opened, including the Hawaiian. The death of James Cook The Third Expedition was for Captain Cook Fatal. The team under his leadership sought to establish peaceful relations with the Aborigines, in previous travels it succeeded. The inhabitants of the Hawaiian islands at first reacted to the travelers as respectfully, but after the conflict happened.

The sailors had to unload the equipment for the repair of a ship damaged by a storm ashore. Thefts began, the natives stole the tools, and when they stole the longboat, the captain tried to take one of their leaders into hostages to return his property. The Hawaiians attacked the team, defending their leader, several sailors and Captain J. Cook were killed. To force the Aborigines to return the body of the captain, the sailors burned the village and drove the inhabitants into the mountains.

After that, the islanders sent them a basket with a divided body and head, and the sailors buried the remains of the captain in the sea. James Cook's wife and children James Cook married six years before his first round -the -world expedition, he was 34 years old. The family lived in London. The wife, Elizabeth, gave birth to five sons and daughter. The first -born lived for 31 years, two sons died at 17 years old, the girl at 4 years old, two have not lived even a year.

Elizabeth survived up to 93 years.