HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of...

Bibliotheca, or Voyages and Travels (1744–1748, and 1764), a book which Cook had with him on Endeavour: The first Point, with respect to a Discovery, would...

exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook sailed...

of lectures at Oxford in 1764. Banks left Oxford for Chelsea in December 1763. He continued to attend the university until 1764, but left that year without...

1768. He circumnavigated the world as a commodore with his own squadron in 1764–1766. He fought in battles in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution...

the imperial throne. The Nawab of Awadh also fought the Battle of Buxar (1764) preserving the interests of the Moghul. Oudh State eventually declared itself...

Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders...

had been built at Whitby in 1764. Hayes oversaw the refitting at Deptford and relaunched the ship under the name HMS Endeavour. The refit took only around...

August Poniatowski, was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1764 to 1795, and the last monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Born...

participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and 1766–69. Carteret was the son of Charles de Carteret, Seigneur of...