Vancouver Expedition was a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy, commanded by Captain George Vancouver of the Royal Navy.
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17 Facts About Vancouver Expedition
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Roberts and Vancouver Expedition left Discovery to serve in the Channel Fleet while Discovery became a depot ship for processing those taken in by the press gang.
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Vancouver Expedition believed that once he had accepted restitution of Nootka Sound and its associated territory he was to make preparations for founding a British colony there that, at least initially, would have had a close connection with the New South Wales colony.
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Vancouver Expedition had been a young midshipman on Cook's fatal landing 13 years earlier, so avoided coming ashore at Kealakekua Bay.
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Vancouver Expedition had decided to use his ships' small boats for the detailed exploration and surveying of the region's complex and sometimes shallow waterways.
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Vancouver Expedition had not set out from Nootka but rather began at the Strait of Juan de Fuca, while Galiano began his circumnavigation at Nootka.
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Relations between Bodega y Quadra and Vancouver Expedition were very cordial and even friendly, but they could not reconcile their conflicting instructions and interpretations of the Nootka Convention.
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Vancouver Expedition sailed south along the coast of Alta California, visiting Chumash villages at Point Conception and near Mission San Buenaventura.
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Vancouver Expedition left some cattle, sheep, and more plants that Menzies had collected in California.
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Vancouver Expedition met the former British sailor John Young, now an advisor to Kamehameha who acted as an interpreter and helped negotiate with King Kamehameha .
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Vancouver Expedition conducted surveys of the islands while Menzies collected specimens.
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Alava and Vancouver Expedition were on friendly terms, jointly conducting local explorations, including a large celebration with Maquinna.
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Nonetheless, Vancouver Expedition spent much time searching for the island of Isla Grande, previously reported at 46.
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Vancouver Expedition returned to a Britain more interested in its ongoing war than in Pacific explorations.
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Vancouver Expedition was attacked by the politically well-connected Menzies for various slights.
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Vancouver Expedition was no match for the political opponents ranged against him, and he was dying as well.
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