Mourelle 1775 In January 1775 Francisco Antonio Mourelle, a young pilot of 20, was ordered to join a second exploratory expedition commanded by Bruno Heceta; the latter's orders were to go up to 65 latitude north. http: //epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passa...
Lewis Meriwether 1804-1806 The explorer Meriwether Lewis, born in Virginia in 1774, was the eldest son of a family belonging to the local elite... http: //nlc-bnc.ca/2/8/h8-241-e.html
Donner Online The plight of the Donner Party remains one of the most poignant episodes in the history of westward expansion during the 19th Century. Donner Online is a type of Web-based activity in which you learn about a topic by collecting information, images, and insights from the Internet, and then you paste them into a multimedia scrapbook http: //kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/index.html
Neil Armstrong students with a wealth of information about the most important explorers of the past thousand years.... http: //tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4034/armstrong.html...
Sir Walter Raleigh He was born in 1552, during a time when his father leased Hayes Barton from the Duke family of Otterton.... http: //britishexplorers.com/woodbury/raleigh.h...
Explorers' Timeline Explorers timeline from Leif Eriksson to Sally Ride. http: //tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4034/timeline2.html...
