Englishman's Forgotten New World Voyage ; 'Lost' Letter Reveals West Man's Role in Celebrated Cabot's Discoveries
Western Daily Press › August 28, 2009
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A British historian has published a "lost" 500-year-old letter from a Tudor monarch which not only reveals the name of the first Englishman to lead an expedition to North America but suggests it was the English who led the first ever expedition of the North West Passage.
Dr Evan Jones, an eminent historian at Bristol University, has discovered that an intrepid Bristol merchant called William Weston undertook a voyage to the "New Found Land" in 1499 just two years after the first voyage of Venetian explorer John Cabot who sailed from Bristol to discover North America in 1497.See the full content of this document
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Englishman's Forgotten New World Voyage ; 'Lost' Letter Reveals West Man's Role in Celebrated Cabot's Discoveries
If the research is correct it also shows Weston might have been the first ever explorer to lead an expedition to the Northwest Passage, commencing the centuries-long search to locate a sea-route around North America.
The evidence comes from a newly publi...See the full content of this document
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