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Vancouver Expedition

Years: 1791 - 1795

The Vancouver Expedition (1791–1795) is a four-and-a-half-year voyage of exploration and diplomacy, commanded by Captain George Vancouver.

The expedition circumnavigates the globe, touches five continents and changes the course of history for the indigenous nations and several European empires and their colonization of the Americas.

The expedition at various times includes between two and four vessels, and up to 153 men, all but six of whom return home safely.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)