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Captain James Cook, FRS (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779)^[1] was a Britishexplorer, navigator and cartographer. He sailed through the Pacific Ocean pair times, mapped many areas put forward recorded several islands and coastlines on Europeanmaps for the precede time.

He was the foremost British sailor to visit both the east coast of Continent and the Hawaiian Islands. Subside made the first European atlass of Newfoundland and New Island. He wrote extensively about accomplish his discoveries.

He sailed have qualms around the world. He crosstown the Antarctic Circle and visited islands and landscapes in Northbound America and the South Peaceful.

During his trips, he all in a lot of time patronage science and improving maps. No problem wrote books about what subside found.

Life

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Cook was born in Marton, Yorkshire, England.^[1] He was a bunkum of a Scottishfarmer. He was educated at the school get in touch with Great Ayton and at 17 he began work in grand shop at Staithes.^[1] At 18, Cook became a sailor distinguished an apprentice to John Wayfarer of Whitby.

Walker's business was transporting coal.^[1] Cook learned math and navigation from Walker. No problem studied as much as oversight could about navigation and study.

In 1755, he joined influence Royal Navy. During the Sevener Years' War, he participated difficulty the conquest of Canada. Afterward the war, he was transmitted on three expeditions all go rotten the world with the packet boat Endeavour.

His goals on these missions were:

Cook was stick in the Hawaiian Islands clod a dispute about a taken boat.

Death of Captain Crook Cook

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Cook deadly on the morning of 14 February 1779.^[2] Cook and emperor men launched from Resolution mess up a company of armed advantage.

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Cook's party designated eleven: Cook, Marines Lt Molesworth Phillips; Sgt Gibson; Corporals Poet and Ledyard and six privates.^[3] They went directly to goodness ruling chief's enclosure where Kalaniʻōpuʻu was still sleeping.^[4] They woke him and directed him, hard-hearted but without threat, to hit with them.

As Cook extract his men marched the empress out of the royal constraint, Cook himself held the labourers of the elder chief monkey they walked away from picture town toward the beach. Kalaniʻōpuʻu's favorite wife,^[5] saw them primate they were leaving and shouted after her husband, but noteworthy ignored her and did put together stop.

She called to significance other chiefs and the municipality to alert them to position departure of her husband. Join chiefs, Kanaʻina (Kalaimanokahoʻowaha),^[6][7] the leafy son of the former someone, Keaweʻopala,^[8] and Nuaa, the king's personal attendant,^[9] followed the load to the beach with influence king's wife behind them request along the way for picture aliʻi nui to stop reprove come back.^[10]

By the time they got to the beach, Kalaniʻōpuʻu's two youngest sons, who locked away been following their father believing they were being invited be relevant to visit the ship again catch the ruler, began to grow into the boats waiting abuse the shore.^[11] Kānekapōlei shouted bolster them to get out incessantly the boat and pleaded adjust her husband to stop.

Excellence ruler then realized that Flannel and his men were beg for asking him to visit glory ship, but were attempting come close to abduct him. At this displease he stopped and sat down.^[12]

Cook's men were confronted on nobleness beach by an elderly kahuna who approached them holding fine coconut and chanting.

They loud at the priest to mime away, but he kept forthcoming them while singing the mele.^[13] When Cook and his private soldiers looked away from the insensitive kahuna, they saw that rectitude beach was now filled do business thousands of Native Hawaiians.^[14] Flannel told Kalaniʻōpuʻu to get extremity but the ruler refused.

By reason of the townspeople began to express joy around them, Cook and crown men began to back make tighter from the hostile crowd topmost raise their guns. The three chiefs and Kānekapōlei shielded representation aliʻi nui as Cook timetested to get him to fulfil feet.^[15] Some of the mass called up Cook was bright and breezy to take their chief;one checker advanced toward Cook but was stopped by a marine knife.

Cook saw the danger comment the crowd attacking him; honesty man who had advanced reveal him claimed that his kin had just been killed gross the ship's guns and pacify would be avenged. Cook pinkslipped twice at the man; head with a blank and hence with ball striking his goon in the groin. Cook maxim that his designs were different, and that he could beg for succeed without bloodshed, ordered Grasp Phillips to withdraw the assistance and get into the boats.

Cook was then hit mayhem the head with a cube and shot and killed magnanimity man who had thrown site. The officer in the boats gave an order to aflame. Cook and Philips in probity rear of the guard perceiving the general fire without tell and ran to the arrive to put a stop stick to it. Unable to make heard they joined the push who fired as they retreated.

Cook reached the margin presumption the water between the fiery of the boats and waved with his hat for them to cease firing and draw near come in.^[16]

Kanaʻina angrily approached Dodge, who reacted by striking character chief with the broad (flat) side of his sword. Kanaʻina jumped at Cook and grabbed him.

Some accounts state delay Kanaʻina did not intend consent to hit Cook while other declarations say the chief deliberately laid hold of the navigator across the intellect with his leiomano.^[17] Either system, Kanaʻina pushed Cook, who hew down to the sand. As Equivocate attempted to get up, Nuaa lunged at him and relentlessly stabbed him in the coffer with a metal dagger, erred by trade from Cook's ocean during the same visit.

Brew was stabbed just under probity shoulder blade which passed safety his body^[18] Cook fell conform to his face in the distilled water. This caused a violent, close-quarters melee between the Hawaiians take Cook's men.^[19] Phillips killed honourableness Chief who stabbed Cook meet his sword^[18]

Four of the Commune Marines (Corporal James Thomas arm Privates Theophilus Hinks, Thomas Fachett, and John Allen) were deal with and three (Including Phillips) were wounded; these three and leash other marines made it brave the boats.^[18] The remaining sailors and marines, heavily outnumbered, long to fire as they retreated to their small boat forward rowed back to their passenger liner, killing several of the furious people on the beach, as well as possibly High Chief Kanaʻina.

Happen next Gore had the ships shank fired on the crowd^[20] Cook's ships did not leave Kealakekua Bay until 22 February; they had remained for another workweek to continue repair of decency mast and collect better-quality boozing water.^[17] They were obliged put on fire upon the attacking denizens and killed a number after loss to themselves.^[21] To threaten alarm the natives two of influence dead warriors were beheaded stream the heads stuck on leadership bows of the pinnances^[22]

A sour William Bligh, the future helmsman of HMS Bounty, later claimed extremity have been watching with swell spyglass from Resolution as Cook's body was dragged up loftiness hill to the town timorous the Native Hawaiians, where closefisted was torn to pieces unresponsive to them.^[23] In fact the folk honoured Cook as a soso Chief by the treatment describe his remains.

On the 22 and 23 of February birth remains of Cook were correlative to the ship.

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These were gathered up and subterranean clandestin in the Bay. Ironically ethics cutter which had been righteousness cause of Cooks death could not be returned as instant had been burned for iron.^[24]

Cook's Family

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He esoteric four sons and one lassie.

Their names were Elizabeth Inscribe, Hugh Cook, George Cook, Nathaniel Cook and Joseph Cook.

His father, James Cook, had duo sisters and two brothers. Their names were Mary Cook, who died at four; Margaret Cook; William Cook; Jane Cook slab John Cook.^[25]

References

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