The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Jamestown, is located off the James River in Virginia, USA. Jamestown is important to American history because it was the first English colony. In the early 1600’s, a group of 100 members of a Virginia company, paid for ships to come from England, where they founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. During the 1620s, Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east. Jamestown remained the capital of the Virginian colony until 1699.

Samuel Bellamy was a famous pirate also known as Black Bellamy. He was born on February 23 1986. He went to sea at an early age and became a sailor in the Royal Navy while still a teenager. During his service with the Royal Navy,Samuel Bellamy saw action in several battles.

In the November, of 1804 they met Toussaint Charbonneau, A French Canadian fur trapper with 2 wives. He had lived amongst the Mandan and Hidatsa for many years. One of his wives was pregnant, her name was Sacagawea. She was 16 years old, she was not originally Shoshone she was Hidatsa, she had been kidnapped when she was 12 and taken from the Hidatsa to the Shoshone, Where she now lived with her husband, Toussaint.

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it”. Have you ever experience conflict with yourself not wanting to do something but doing it anyways, against someone else or even against nature? This essay will explain the different kinds of conflict in order of: Person versus self, person versus self and person versus nature.

Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer who led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American interior of the Pacific. He did this with the company of William Clark. The Lewis and Clark expedition spanned over 8,000 miles in a three year period. They took the Corps of Discovery, which was the name of the expedition party, down the Ohio River, then up the Missouri River, across the Continental Divide, down the Columbus River and to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark along with their expedition began their journey near St. Louis, Missouri in May 1804. Throughout this journey the Corps of Discovery suffered nearly every obstacle one could think of. They dealt with harsh weather, horrible waters, along with injury, hunger, fatigue and sickness.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition was not all fun and games. They had to deal with things like, hostile Natives, cold, bitter winters with no shelter, and unforgiving terrain. Although many natives were helpful towards the expedition, some thought them intruders to their sacred lands. For example, the Tieton-Su,one of the strongest tribes in the area decided that the expedition would not continue. They caught the expedition and pointed weapons at them however, luck was with the expedition. They continued up river.This was not the only challenge the expedition faced, the had to face bitter temperatures and feet of

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer, conquistador, and author of the book The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. He was born into a distinguished family in 1490 in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, and was raised by paternal grandfather Pedro de Vera, one of the conquerors and governors of the Canary Islands. His strange name, literally meaning “head of a cow” came from his ancestor who used the skull of a cow to mark the pass for a Christian Army and therefore help them defeat the Muslim Moors in battle. While Cabeza de Vaca could read and write, there was no evidence that he got more than the most basic education available. In 1512, he fought in the Battle of Ravenna for King Ferdinand of Spain and in the early 1520’s, he

The Finest Hours by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman is the true story of the brave men who risked their own lives to save others. The journey across the sea consisted of many situations that they had to face. Not many people would risk their own lives to save someone else’s. The book describes the situations in a great deal, and any reader will enjoy reading the book.

To many people it is a strong belief the Lewis and Clark expedition was a threat against the american indians and wildlife and caused the start of their removal, but I believe that what happened to the american indians had to happen in order to expand our country. The Lewis and Clark expedition explored the Louisiana purchase bought from the French in 1803 after the French failed their dream of a new empire. Current president Thomas Jefferson was asked by the French to buy a considerable amount of land for a very cheap price when the french had entered a rough patch of financial issues. The land was bought by Thomas Jefferson who had no idea what or really even who was living there besides the american indians. Thomas Jefferson decided to send explorers

Three time Olympic World champion in track and field, Gail Devers once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, a book about Louis Zamperini’s bravery helped him to survive his bomber crashing into the Pacific spending forty-seven days adrift at sea only to be captured and sent to a POW camp. All of Louie’s emotional story is captivated in Hillenbrand’s memorable story.

According to the charter of 1732, Georgia was made for charity, economics, and defense. The Good ship Anne was perfect and wonderful for the 114 passengers on the journey. It took exactly 57 days to get to a place called Charleston, South Carolina on January 13th, 1733. We then traveled to Yamacraw Bluff where we talked to John and Mary Musgrove. Mary was going to translate for us when we talked to Tomichichi about settling down. They tried to make Georgia a success, but was it? In this letter, I will prove to you how Georgia’s poor charity, penniless economics, and good for nothing defense made the colony of Georgia a failure. Based on the reason for its charter, charity, economics, and defense, I think Georgia was a failure.

In the early 1800’s, the Welsh began to immigrate to the United States from poverty stricken areas of Wales and came to the Ohio area because they viewed the abundance of land as a godsend and hoped to make a stable life for themselves on the frontier. The first Welsh migrants in Ohio traveled down the Ohio River from Pennsylvania.

Have you ever wondered how Roanoke became the Lost Colony? The Lost Colony has been a mystery for many years and the mystery still hasn’t been solved but there are some theories.

In May 1577, a man named, John White” sailed on the ship Aid, as part of an expedition to America. The trip was commanded by Martin Frobisher. The reason for the trip was so that he could find precious metals, and a northwest passage to Asia. White sailed to Greenland and Baffin Island trying to find a new passageway. After many months he realized there wasn’t a northwest passage, nor were there any precious metals to be found. Although, before heading home White sketched some drawing of his surroundings, and the people he had met on this voyage. Eight years later In 1585 White, an artist and cartographer, accompanied the voyage from England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina under a plan by Sir Walter Raleigh to settle "Virginia." White

Everyone knows about Thanksgiving and eating turkey and pie, with a little cranberry sauce. Even though that is not what the pilgrims and Indians really did on the first Thanksgiving. Most elementary schools teach about how the pilgrims and Indians were friends. That they wore nice clothing, and ate at a giant table all together with a cornucopia in front of them. That is not really what happened; they probably did not have a table or pretty clothes. They ate what they had, not anything that they wanted. The schools don’t really portray what actually happened on the first thanksgiving.