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Sir David Ochterlony, 1st Baronet GCB, was a British general. In 1777, he went as a cadet to…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Dom Vasco da Gama, (c.1460s-1524) was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to…
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten was a Dutch merchant, trader and historian. He travelled…
Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh was a Dutch sea-captain who explored the central west coast of…
Duleep Singh and later in life nicknamed the Black Prince of Perthshire, was the last Maharaja…
Asia + Oceania
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Frederick de Houtman was a Dutch explorer, navigator, and colonial governor who sailed along…
Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but he instead came…
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles was a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811…