Matthew Henson's Journey To The North Pole

64. How many years did Matthew Henson and his group search for the North Pole?

Matthew Alexander Henson was the first 1955. He was the son of two freeborn black sharecroppers. Henson was married twice to first wife, Eva Flint and second wife, Lucy Ross. They didn’t have any children. He fathered his only African American Artic explorer. He was born August 8, 1866 in Nanjemoy, Maryland and died March 9, child, Anauakaq, with Akatingwah (Biography). Matthew Henson was best known as the co-discoverer of the North Pole with Robert Edwin Peary in 1909. Henson displayed great character and he was very important to American History. Even though Henson had an impact on society, he also had some issues to deal with along the way.

Matthew Henson was the first African-American to reach the North Pole. Matthew Alexander Henson was born on August 8, 1868. When he was a child, his parents passed away. In his young life he worked as a cabin boy, clerk and a personal assistant. Through the trial of his life he still achieved greatness.

H had leadership, grit, and the smarts. He had those traits because he was a leader leading people to the north pole, he had grit because it took him six time to make it, and he had smarts because he knew were to go and what people to recruit. In the book Onward it states, “After Henson and Peary persuaded Inuit families to join the expedition, they all sailed to Cape Sheridan in an ice-busting, gut-wrenching voyage that took two weeks.” That shows he had leadership because he was going to lead many Inuit people to the north pole. In Onward it also states, “He unpacked a thin silk American flag he had been carrying with him all of his many years of exploration and planted it on top of his igloo.”

Matthew Henson and Robert Peary had a strong relationship. They both had a need for exploration, fame, and danger, and Henson’s need is one of the reasons he started traveling with Peary. The two men met when Henson was working at a clothing and hat store, when Peary walked in and offered him a job. This job was to be his personal servant while he was on an expedition in Nicaragua. Peary was going to head an engineering team to see about the possibility of digging a canal across Nicaragua. Henson later wrote that he saw qualities in Peary that made him want to participate in his services. After that expedition, Peary approached Henson with an idea. He wanted to raise money to go to the arctic and wanted Henson to go with him. On their

In letter 1 Robert Walton writes to her sister Mrs. Saville about how his journey through london, that is an experience of a cold and breezy conditions that braces his nerves and fills him with delight, and motivates hims into pursuing his dream to reach the north pole, as they travel across the ocean his curiosity becomes more and more joyous as they get closer and closer to the north pole, but first to get to the north pole he and his crew of whale-fishers went through several expeditions through the

Late 1600s explorers from french led an expedition to Minnesota. In 1858 Minnesota became a state in the united states the 32 to be exact on may 11.The french and Indian war ended and British took over the eastern Minnesota but British only owned the land for 20 years when the us took over it after the revolutionary war. Thomas Jefferson sent people out to explore and learn about the new land after the lusiana purchase. In 1805 Explorer Zebulon Pike arrived in Minnesota.Hoping to find the headwaters of the Mississippi river but he found no source of the river. Later he signed a treaty with the Dakota Indians for land. Fort Snelling was the first major U.S outpost in Minnesota which was finished in 1825. Minnesota became a territory of the

Though one cannot yet tell if Walton’s mission will benefit himself or society, he seems to think that it will. Obviously, he has a passion for his exploration of the north that shines through in some of the other letters he writes to his sister as well as this particular quote. He has already worked towards his goal and continues to, it seems, based on how he describes himself early on in the letters. If his mission to the north is successful, his discoveries there may be good for mankind if he finds something interesting or even useful. Additionally, Walton shows that he is different than other people because of his desire to explore, as that desire “hurries me out of the common pathways of men”, which might award him a normal life but not

Americans learn about Christopher Columbus briefly in history class, but only about the fact that he discovered the New World and how that helped others to become interested in exploring the New World. The Log of Christopher Columbus translated by Robert H. Fusion is about Christopher Columbus’ logs of his voyage to the New World from August 3, 1492, to March 15, 1493. First off who was Christopher Columbus? “...Columbus is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” (Fuson 13). There is no documentation as to when he was born, where he was born, or even to where he was buried. Christopher Columbus wrote a daily record of his voyage to the New World, which can be useful to people because it informs us of what some people during that time

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“You must understand that you must treat all men as machines in service of the emperor” This quote was used by the Japanese to describe the POW’s in this book. The POW’s were people that were captured and imprisoned by the enemy side. However, many of the prisoners that worked for the Japanese were not even involved in the war. In fact, in the book only a fraction of the prisoners captured were even part of the Alliance. “Alongside them were a quarter of a million Tamils, Chinese, Javanese, Malayans, Thais, and Burmese. Or more.” In “The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan” begins with Dorrigo Evans looking back on his life.He has an affair with his uncle 's wife Amy, while already liking another girl named Ella, without

In the excerpt from Columbus’s diary, we get a very detailed account of his maiden voyage to the Caribbean islands, that which he mistook for the Indies. His primary goal in taking this sea voyage was to reach India to see how the people of that land operated as well as to discern the plausibility of converting the Indians to the Catholic religion. His personal goal was to please the King and Queen of Spain who sent him on this voyage, because in doing so he would make a name for himself and likewise grant his sons, as well as his grandsons a life full of prosperity. These goals ultimately changed the way that his journey was depicted, however, most of the text seemed as if it was very accurate and only slightly embellished

His significance has a confusion and complex part in the book. The book is a biography of him with many things that are shown about him. He had a great life ahead of him and really chose otherwise by appearing in a way that makes him reject everyone with bitterness towards his parents and friends. His characteristics really lead him to his downfall, he was a hardhead intelligent student that wanted to try life on his own and escape civilization that ended him in the long run.

In the book Frankenstein it tells about a man named Captain Robert Walton in St. Petersburg, Russia waiting on a ship to Archangel were he'll find some men to sail off to the North Pole. While on their way to the North Pole they get stuck in ice several hundreds of miles away from land.

Amundsen and his men learned many things with their expedition to the South Pole. Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer; he was going to the North Pole, however, Robert Peary beat him there. Amundsen decided to change his plans and go to the South Pole. Amundsen discovered the North-West Passage. Amundsen wrote in his diary saying,"'As for the tent, with regard to shape and size it is comfortable but it is too susceptible to the wind'"(Alexander).