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Vice-Admiral John Byron (8 November 1723 – 1 April 1786) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer. He earned the nickname " Foul-Weather Jack " in the press because of his frequent encounters with bad weather at sea. [1]
John Byron (8 de novembro de 1723 – Londres, 10 de abril de 1786) foi um navegador inglês que entre 1764 e 1766 comandou a fragata "Dolphin" pelo Oceano Pacífico em busca de novos continentes. Em setembro de 1764, aportou no Rio de Janeiro, constatando que as fortificações da cidade estavam deterioradas.
6 de abr. de 2024 · John Byron (born Nov. 8, 1723—died April 10, 1786, England) was a British admiral, whose account (1768) of a shipwreck in South America was to some extent used by his grandson, the poet Lord Byron, in Don Juan. The second son of the 4th Baron Byron, he was a midshipman on board the Wager in 1741 when it was wrecked off the coast of ...
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Lord Byron (1788-1824), sexto barão dos Byron, foi um dos principais poetas britânicos do romantismo. Chamava-se George Gordon Byron e nasceu em Londres no dia 22 de janeiro de 1788. Era filho de John Byron e Catherine Gordon de Gight. Seu pai faleceu logo depois do seu...
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naval officer and explorer, was born on 8 November 1723, the second son of William, fourth Baron Byron and his third wife Frances, née Berkeley. He joined the Navy in 1737, and as a midshipman sailed in the ill-fated Wager on ANSON 's voyage round the world in 1740-44. In May 1741 the Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of ...
John Byron. 1723-1786. British Explorer and Naval Admiral. After the exploration of Australia and New Zealand by Dutchman Abel Tasman (c. 1603-1659), a feverish period of sea exploration began, setting the stage for a surge in European colonialism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
