Laperouse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438535470)

Ernest Scott worked as a journalist on the London Globe before migrating to Australia in 1892, where he joined the staff of The Herald newspaper in Melbourne. The publication of Terre Napoleon (1910) and Laperouse (1912) established his reputation as a historian. La P rouse, Jean-Fran ois de Galaup, comte de (1741-1788) was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. He studied in a Jesuit college and entered the naval college when he was fifteen. He was on a second supply expedition in 1758 to that besieged fortress which was forced to make a circuitous route around Newfoundland to avoid British patrols. In 1759 he was wounded in the Battle of Quiberon Bay. When he defeated the English frigate Ariel in the West Indies he was promoted to Commodore. After the Treaty of Paris, La P rouse was appointed in 1785 by Louis XVI to lead an expedition around the world. During his travels he visited Alaska, Hawaii, Japan Australia and various islands

Author: Ernest Scott
ISBN-10: 1438535473
ISBN-13: 9781438535470
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2010
Pages: 66
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.14d