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Henry Hudson

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Hudson fl. 1607-11, English navigator and explorer. He was hired (1607) by the English Muscovy Company to find the Northeast Passage to Asia. He failed, and another attempt (1608) to find a new route was also fruitless. Engaged (1609) for the same purpose by the Dutch East India Company, he sailed in the Half Moon to Spitsbergen, where extreme ice and cold brought his crew near mutiny. Hudson, determined not to lose his reputation as an explorer, disregarded his instructions and sailed westward hoping to find the Northwest Passage . He entered Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, and... Read more
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson Henry Hudson (active 1607-1611) was an English navigator...America for England and the Netherlands. Henry Hudson's life is undocumented prior to his...may be consulted in G. M. Asher, ed., Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents... Read more
Hudson, Henry
Hudson, Henry (b. c. 1565, d. after June 1611), English navigator and explorer, first heard of...evidence of Hudson's fate has ever been discovered. Bibliography Asher, G. M. , Henry Hudson the Navigator (1860). Powys, L. , Henry Hudson (1927). Read more

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