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French Explorers P 7.
In 1782, he captured two English forts on the shores of Hudson's Bay, and the next year found him married to a young Creole girl he had met at Mauritus. In 1785 he was appointed to lead a French expedition to the Pacific, many of the European nations, England, the Dutch, the Portuguese and the Spanish, all anxious to gain new territories, or the treasures from the East such as the spices, control and sale of which the Dutch had probably already gained a monopoly. La Perouse was given two ships, each of only 500 tons, Astrolabe and Boussole, and he sailed from Brest in August of 1785, bound for Cape Horn. In late 1786, he landed in Alaska, having called at Easter Island and Hawaii, he had visited the Spanish settlements in Monterey, and was critical of the way the Franciscan missions were treating the local Indians. La Perouse now crossed the Pacific to Macao, and here sold all the furs he had picked up in Alaska, next he headed for Manila, to then cross over to Korea. The Kuriles were visited and the Kamchatka Peninsula was explored, letters from Paris were received, ordering La Perouse to visit the British settlement at Botany Bay, where he arrived on the 26th. of June 1788. This French explorer hoped to restock with food here in Australia, but the colony had none to spare, they themselves were anxiously awaiting food relief by means of a supply ship from Britain. Fresh water and wood was all the help he could gain at Port Jackson, he sent off home to Paris his journals and letters via a British ship, and set sail for New Caledonia, Santa Cruz, and the Solomons, " Never to be seen again."
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