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Captain James Cook served in the British Royal Navy.
Captain James Cook became famous in 1770. He was the man who discovered New Zealand. He was also a commander in the Royal Navy.
Captain James Cook was an English explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. He was born in born in Marton, England on November 7, 1728 and died February 14, 1779, in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii.
Captain James Cook represented England on his journeys.
The voyage commissioned by King George III allowed Captain James Cook to sail from Plymouth Harbour England Great Britain on 26 August 1768 on HMB Endeavour, It was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean.
He was never in the army, as a young person he was in the Merchant Navy and later in the Royal Navy
Captain Cook sailed for the British Royal Navy. However, he was also sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society to undertake specific missions for scientific purposes. He was actually hired in 1766 by the Royal Society to travel to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the transit of Venus across the Sun and also for the Royal Geographical Society.
James Cook joined the British army in 1755.
James Cook explored several areas. He was a cartographer as well as a Captain in the Navy. He explored areas in order to create maps.
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James Cook was the son of a farm labourer, and held no great ambitions, being apprenticed in a grocer/haberdashery when he was 16. Lack of aptitude in the trade led his employer to introduce Cook to local shipowners, who took him on as a merchant navy apprentice. Here he was educated in algebra, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy, which later set Cook up to command his own ship.
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