"Henry Hudson, I grant you the money to find the Northwest Passage for England. This is an important opportunity for you son. You might become wealthy with some of the profit. This voyage is very valuable to England and it will make us much more powerful. England is counting on you Hudson!" Joshua Stern, the owner of an English company, exclaimed. "I understand Mr. Stern and I hope to bring you and your company many valuable riches. I am truly thankful for your money. It will allow me to achieve the goal of finding the Northwest Passage and finally discovering a faster trade route to Asia," I replied. Every word I said to him was true. I really wanted to find the Northwest Passage like all of the other recent explorers. Also, I needed …show more content…
the money because my wife, son, and I are very poor. My wife is starting to get very ill and I'm trying everything I can to pay off the medical bills. Mr. Stern was right, this is an important opportunity for me. In 1608, I set out to find the Northwest Passage.
I landed on a cold island but there was no waterway. It was a hard decision to make about which direction to go but my crew kept saying, "Go north! It will lead us to the passage!" So, I used my compass to calculate which direction was north and we sailed in that direction. We couldn't find the Northwest Passage! It was a huge disappointment! Anyway, the good news is that another company hired me. Their name is the Dutch East India Company and I'm excited to explore for them! In 1609, I set sail and I reached a river which I named after myself after a month of exploring it. I named it the Hudson River. The Dutch leaders in Holland were depressed because I never found the Northwest Passage. I did still claim the whole Hudson River valley for them …show more content…
though. Another English company was desperate to find the waterway so they asked me. They were so desperate that whoever was willing to become part of the crew was chosen! I didn't think I was going to accept this offer if just anyone was in my crew. What if they didn't even care about my family and they just wanted to become rich? When I met my crew, I was trying to analyze their attitude. Most of them seemed fined so I informed them about my family and how important this was for me. They all said, "What are we waiting for? Let's set sail already!" I finally got convinced from this one old man who said, "Well if you really care about your family you would set sail right now. The sooner the better for your wife." I agreed with him and I told them to get a good night's rest because at 6:00 sharp, we would sail away.
At 5:30 in the morning, a strong wind woke me. I guess everyone had stayed and slept on the dock. I started to scream, "Wake up! Wake up! It's time to wake up!" Everyone was very startled and they all looked very sleepy. We boarded the boat and sailed along the coast of North America to a bay which I also named after myself. Hudson Bay was its name. I claimed the land around this bay for England and explored the bay for 3 months. It was freezing cold and my ship had froze in ice! That winter was a very cold one and my crew and I suffered in the chilly
weather. "This is all your fault! I wouldn't have been stuck in this weather if you hadn't convinced me to come on this journey!" I shouted at them. "Your the one who chose to go on this trip" Julio, an English man, responded. "I didn't have much of a choice! My wife is slowly dying!" I cried with tears coming upon my eyes. They didn't care about my wife! All they cared about was their dumb money! I told them to leave and they agreed! There was so many of them that they won the big boat and left me and the 8 others that were on my side with the small emergency boat! We were stranded there with no food for about a month. Three of my crew members died of starvation. Two days after that, we finally found some fish to catch and eat! Everyone was starving! Five days after our feast, we saw Native Americans coming our way in small boats! I guess they must've been fishing and saw some people so came to see who they were. Thank goodness that happened or else we would've had to start eating each other in order to survive! They were very kind and showed us the way to where they lived. We tried explaining to them what happened but it was difficult to communicate with them. We left their home to try to find another tribe who was easier to communicate with or other Europeans. We walked west and found some Spanish settlers. They didn't believe our story and thought we were lying to them in order to gain their trust so that we could hear their secrets and report them to English rulers. So, they forced us out of their area and we decided to try again. This time, we found some Spanish explorers who lent us one of their three ships although they didn't believe I was Henry Hudson. We used the ship and made it back to England but everyone kept saying, "You're not Henry Hudson! He left over two years ago and I heard he got stranded from his crew when they mutinied." I couldn't believe it! I had actually survived all of that just to come back to find out that no one believes me! My heart still had one hope left in it though, finding my son. I ran home and I got the feeling in my stomach that my wife wasn't there. Tears came to my eyes. When I got to the house I slowly creaked the door open. I looked to the left and there was my son. I squeezed him tight and he recognized me! I looked to the right and there, knitting, was my wife! "Jessica! You're alive!" I shouted with joy. Happy tears came streaming down her eyes which of course made me start crying too. "How is this possible?" I questioned. "The English company paid all of the medical bills because they felt sorry that you had died but I guess that really didn't happen!" she exclaimed. This was the happiest day of my life even though I was disappointed that I never found the Northwest Passage.
Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain were two great explorers. Both were born around 1570 and were sons of sea captains . However, even though they both have similarities from how they were brought up, their voyages were very different from one another. Even the types of explorers they were are different from each other.
John Hancock was raised in present day Quincy, Massachusetts. Born from a clergyman father, who passed away early in Hancock’s youth, had his wealthy uncle fostered the young orphan. At adolescence, he was sent to Harvard to for a prestige education, and after graduating the university, he traveled overseas to Britain to learn business. In the year 1764, John Hancock inherited his uncle’s business, “Thomas Hancock and Company,” after his uncle passed away. When John Hancock became an affluent merchant in all of New England, he did not realize that this would unfold an important occurrence that sparked his devoted, powerful patriotism. During the time when the Stamp Act was placed, his workers smuggled wine off of one of his cargo ships, The Liberty, which violated the law. Hancock was blamed for his workers doing, which lead to the British Government who attempted to seize his boat. He hired the infamous lawyer John Adams to defend him in court, although, the ...
Manifested in the mind of the 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson came the first American expedition to head west towards the Missouri River all the way to the Pacific Ocean, in the year 1804. The Lewis and Clark Expedition formed just one year after the Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of territory from imperial France in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson. 1. The Louisiana Purchase provoked President Jefferson to look to navigate the territory that his empire now encompassed, and out of this grew the expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and Lewis Clark. 2. Lewis and Clark and their unit of volunteers from the United States Army specially selected by Thomas Jefferson that accompanied them soon became known as the Corps of Discovery, a group of men destined to “compile what amounted to the first chapters in an American encyclopedia of Native American peoples and cultures”.
The Missouri River seemed to Jefferson to be the most practical way to travel across the continent to the waters in the Rockies. After climbing over the Rocky Mountains he thought that the Corps of Discovery would find another river leading straight to the Pacific Ocean. But, the speculations of President Jefferson about the geography did not match what Lewis and Clark
Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took the risk of life, limb, and liberty to bring back the precious and valuable information of the Pacific Northwest of the United States territory. Their accomplishments of surviving the trek and delivering the data to the U.S. government, have altered the course of history, but have some Historian’s and author’s stating, “It produced nothing useful.”, and having “added little to the stock of science and wealth. Lewis and Clark’s expedition is one of the most famous and most unknown adventures of America’s frontier.
Supporters of the Age of Exploration believe James Cook was an example of a great explorer and a navigator. In his text/lecture “Cook’s Third Voyage”, Encyclopedia argues that in Hawaii he fought with the Hawaiians during his third voyage in 1779 and died leaving a legacy. Cook mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii, the great Barrier Reef of Australia, and the Pacific Ocean. He had a superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in many different conditions. Based upon this research, it is clear that James Cook is significant because he’s a great seaman. This evidence supports
Henry Hudson (English seamen) started sailing with his ship named “the half moon” in 1609 for the VOC. Officially he was searching for a new trading route to Asia. He was searching for the Northwest Passage through North America on the west of the Half Moon. A lot of explorers did the same thing before him. But he didn’t found the Northwest Passage. But he did find something else, the New Netherlands. It had beautiful woods, animals and ...
Nowadays, it is a very dangerous and risky adventure to take a ship to the Northern Sea. We are so advanced in technology, but still no one wants to risk their lives. The captain and his crew were traveling during the navigation season, but they were facing fog and icebergs on their way. They were stuck in ice and mist for a whole day. Finally, around two o?clock the fog and mist was gone and they could only see the endless ice surrounding them.
I was too excited to sleep that night so I just stayed up and read. It was finally 4:30 in the morning and time to get up. After a quick bowl of cereal. I jumped in the pickup and drove to where I was going to hunt. It was still dark when I got there so I grabbed my stuff and started up the mountain. I got to where I wanted to glass from, and waited for it to get light, so I could start looking for elk.
In 1607, Henry Hudson took off sailing for the English Muscovy Company. He went in a ship called Hopewell with his son and ten other crewmembers. They ended up touching Greenland, the Svalbard Islands, and Spitsbergen. In this journey, he sailed up to 80o23' because he was trying to find the Northeast Passage. This passage would allow them to reach Asia without crossing Spain's waters. Sadly, ice blocked Henry Hudson and he had to turn around. Again, in 1608, Henry Hudson sailed out in Hopewell for the English Muscovy Company in hopes of finding the Northeast Passage. On this journey, Henry Hudson used the Novaya Zemlya Islands in the Barents Sea. For the second time though, ice blocked Hudson's ship and they had to return to England. On return, they had to share the bad news of not finding the Northeast Passage, which led the English
In his book “American Passage: The History of Ellis Island”, Vincent J. Cannato expressed the course that the late 1800s to 1900s immigrants went through. The main focus of Cannato’s book was the many changes in the immigration policy, and how it shaped the United States. Before Ellis Island opened, the restriction of immigrants was weak. Many Americans had their own beliefs on how immigration should be managed, however, restrictions towards immigration was not enforced until the early 1900s. When the immigration policy was finally imposed, the treatment of immigrants became harsh and unsympathetic. Vincent J. Cannato’s book “American Passage: The History of Ellis Island” explains the changes of procedures and laws, the attitudes of Americans,
It was a warm rainy June night the humidity was high which made it even harder to breathe on the crammed boat. My family was asleep on the constantly rocking boat suddenly the boat shook, but my family was still fast asleep. I couldn’t seem to fall asleep so I got up and stepped out on the cold wet steel boats upper deck to get some air. When I got outside I realized that it was pouring bucket sized rain. I saw increasingly large waves crash furiously against the lower deck. Hard water droplets pelted my face, I could taste the salt water in my mouth from the spray of the ocean. Suddenly A massive wave slammed hard against the ship and almost swallowed the boat. Wind gusts started kicking up. I held onto the rail grasping it as if it were my prized possession. Suddenly I was blown
In “ A Description of New England ”, Smith starts by describing the pleasure and content that risking your life for getting your own piece of land brings to men. On the other hand, Bradford reminds us how harsh and difficult the trip to the New World was for the p...
While walking by the shore I was amazed by the soft smooth sand beneath my feet, it seemed like all the worries I had throughout the year were finally erased. There was a rock facing the ocean that it thought was really cool, so I decided to settle there for a moment to appreciate the view, I closed my eyes for a second letting myself comforted by the sounds of the ocean, the sounds the waves were making against the rocks was impressive. Spending a few more minutes on the rock I decided to go back. Tying to help my parents for making breakfast, they sent me and my brother to get bread, and a few croissants at the bakery. My brother was driving while I was still wondering the landscape, I thought it was interesting how this island contained a mix between mountains, and beaches. At the table, conversations were spontaneous and positives, I forgot how fun breakfast could be when spending with family. That day we had has a plan to go to the beach, my mom could guess what me and my father had in mind. It was scuba diving and hunting with harpoons, but before we had to first buy the necessary equipment, and study the fishes we could hunt, since some were protected, and review the fishes that were edible. Finally done with preparation we headed to the beach, me and my dad waited that day for so long, being a big fan of hunting, I was quite impressed by the number of variety the Mediterranean Sea could provide, also what really shocked
After we got off the airplane, we rented a car and drove to my Uncle Joe?s house. We finally got there and then we all went out to eat dinner. We went to some Italian restraunt and boy was it good. To this day, I have never tasted anything as good as the Veal Picata I had that day. I ate so much that I could hardly move and once I got back to my uncle?s, I just passed out and went to bed. I had a big and exciting day ahead of me. I was going to Universal Studios and I couldn?t wait.