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  2. Henry Hudson - Wikipedia

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    Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1596916807. Juet, Robert (1609). Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage (PDF). From the 1625 edition of Purchas His Pilgrimes; transcribed 2006 by Brea Barthel. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2011

  3. Exploration of North America - Wikipedia

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    Map of Hudson's voyages to North America. After two failed attempts to reach East Asia by circumnavigating Siberia , Henry Hudson sailed west in 1609 under the Dutch East India Company . He, too, passed Cape Cod , Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay , instead sailing up the Hudson River on September 11, 1609 in search of a fabled connection to ...

  4. List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto ...

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    A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...

  5. Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    Map of Henry Hudson's 1609–1611 voyages to North America for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) The 1497 English expedition authorized by Henry VII of England was led by Italian Venetian John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto); it was the first of a series of French and English missions exploring North America. Mariners from the Italian peninsula played ...

  6. Northwest Passage - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish made several voyages to the northwest coast of North America during the late 18th century. Determining whether a Northwest Passage existed was one of the motives for their efforts. Among the voyages that involved careful searches for a Passage included the 1775 and 1779 voyages of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra .

  7. Adriaen Block - Wikipedia

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    Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland" Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson ...

  8. Halve Maen - Wikipedia

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    The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic. [2] In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Over fifty years later, in 1989, the New Netherland ...

  9. Robert Bylot - Wikipedia

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    Robert Bylot (fl. 1610–1616) was an English explorer who made four voyages to the Arctic. [1] He was uneducated and from a working-class background, but was able to rise to rank of master in the English Royal Navy .