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Article: Fate kept heroes apart.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 20, 2005
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QUESTION Did Horatio Nelson ever meet Captain James Cook?
WITH Trafalgar Day tomorrow on October 21, followed by the birthday of Captain James Cook on October 28, this is a very apt time to answer this question.
Horatio Nelson was born in 1758 and enlisted in the Royal Navy as a 12-year-old midshipman in 1770. At the time, Captain Cook was exploring the east coast of Australia and was halfway through his first voyage of exploration (1768-1771).
No doubt, these two naval heroes would eventually have met had Captain Cook returned from his third and last voyage of Pacific exploration.
But this was not to be; Cook was killed by Hawaiian ...