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Thomas Cavendish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Davis accompanied him, but the voyage (undertaken with five vessels) was an utter failure, much of the fault lying with Cavendish himself, who falsely accused Davis, with his last breath, of deserting him (May 20, 1592). He died and was buried at sea, on the way home, in the summer ... Brother: Sir John Cavendish;
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Thomas Cavendish English Buccaneer & the third person to circumnavigate the Earth; ... Cavendish sailed with Sir Richard Grenville’s expedition to America in 1585, and upon his return to England began to plan for his own circumnavigation of the globe, this time modeled on sir Francis Drake’s voyage.
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CAVENDISH [Candish], THOMAS (1555?-1592), the third circumnavigator of the globe, was born at Trimley St Martin, Suffolk. On quitting Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (without a degree), he almost ruined himself by his extravagance as a courtier.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cavendish, Thomas. Cavendish, Thomas. Information about Cavendish, Thomas in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Cavendish Mall; Cavendish Motor Services; Cavendish Motor Servies; Cavendish Professor of Physics; Cavendish road state high; Cavendish Road State High School;
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Sir Thomas Cavendish (or Candish) (1560 - 1592) was an English sea explorer. He was known as "the Navigator" because he led the third expedition to travel around (circumnavigate) the globe. Cavendish was the first who set sail to do this.
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Books by Thomas Cavendish: Last voyages--Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh : the original narratives, The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish, 1591-1592: The Autograph Manuscript ... Thomas Cavendish is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.
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Thomas Cavendish was born in 1560 and at the age of 32, died. As a man, Cavendish became an English navigator. Although he became known for many things, one of the first and most important was his command of a ship in the flotilla, which was under the control of Sir Richard Grenville.
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Encyclopedia article about Cavendish, Thomas. Information about Cavendish, Thomas in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... caveman; Cavendish; Cavendish experiment; Cavendish Laboratory; Cavendish, George; Cavendish, Henry; Cavendish, Lord Frederick Charles; Cavendish, Thomas;
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