See also:LEDYARD, See also:JOHN (1751–1789) , See also:American traveller, was See also:born in Groton, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A. After vainly trying See also:law and See also:theology, Ledyard adopted a See also:seaman's See also:life, and, coming to See also:London, was engaged as See also:corporal of See also:marines by See also:Captain See also:Cook for his third voyage (1776). On his return (1778) Ledyard had to give up to the See also:Admiralty his copious See also:journals, but afterwards published, from memory, a meagre narrative of his experiences—herein giving the only See also:account of Cook's See also:death by an See also:eye-See also:witness (See also:Hartford, U.S.A., 1783). He continued in the See also:British service till 1782, when he escaped, off See also:Long See also:Island. In 1784 he revisited See also:Europe, to organize an expedition to the American See also:North-See also:West. Having failed in his attempts, he decided to reach his See also:goal by travelling across Europe and See also:Asia. Baffled in his hopes of See also:crossing the Baltic on the See also:ice (See also:Stockholm to See also:Abo), he walked right See also:round from Stockholm to St See also:Petersburg, where he arrived barefoot and penniless (See also:March 1787). Here he made See also:friends with See also:Pallas and others, and accompanied Dr See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, a Scotch physician in the See also:Russian service, to See also:Siberia. Ledyard See also:left Dr Brown at See also:Barnaul, went on to See also:Tomsk and See also:Irkutsk, visited See also:Lake See also:Baikal, and descended the See also:Lena to See also:Yakutsk (18th of See also:September 1787). With Captain See also:Joseph Billings, whom he had known on Cook's " See also:Resolution," he returned to Irkutsk, where he was arrested, deported to the See also:Polish frontier, and banished from See also:Russia for ever. Reaching London, he was engaged by See also:Sir Joseph See also:Banks and the See also:African Association to explore overland routes from See also:Alexandria to the See also:Niger, but in See also:Cairo he succumbed to a dose
1 See also:Arago, Gamier-Pages, See also:Marie, Lamartine, and Ledru-See also:Rollin.
of See also:vitriol (17th of See also:January 1789). Though a born explorer,
little "resulted from his immense but See also:ill-directed activities.
See See also:Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, by Jared See also:Sparks (1828).
End of Article: LEDYARD, JOHN (1751–1789)
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