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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley, am 28. Januar 1841 in Denbigh, Wales, als John Rowlands geboren, kam als Schiffsjunge nach Amerika, wo ihn der Kaufmann Stanley adoptierte. Ab 1867 war er Berichterstatter des "New York Herald", in dessen Auftrag er 1871 den seit zwei Jahren verschollenen Missionar und Afrikaforscher David Livingstone suchen sollte. [deu] |
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Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Anglo-American journalist and empire builder, b. Denbigh, Wales. Originally named John Rowlands, he took the name of his adoptive father in New Orleans, where Stanley went in 1857. After fighting on both sides in the American Civil War, he drifted into journalism. His coverage of Lord Napier's Abyssinian campaign in 1868 for the New York Herald won him journalistic fame, and the Herald commissioned him to go to Africa to find David Livingstone. [eng] |
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Henry Morton Stanley Biography
Most famous for allegedly uttering the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," Henry Morton Stanley was one of the most well-known of all nineteenth-century British explorers. [eng] |
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Who2 Profile: Henry Morton Stanley
Born into poverty, John Rowlands left Wales and in 1858 arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he took the name Henry Stanley. He fought as a Confederate in the U.S. Civil War, was captured, then fought on the Union side. As a journalist, he was dispatched from New York to Asia Minor and to the American West, and then assigned to Africa to find the missing explorer David Livingstone. [eng] |
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Henry Morton Stanley
Henry Morton Stanley, born John Rowland on January 29, 1841 at Denbigh,Wales was one of the most famous nineteenth -century British explorers. At the age of 18 he decided to leave Wales. As a cabin boy he sailed to New Orleans, Louisiana, which he reached in 1858. There he gained employment under an American merchant named Henry Stanley, whose name he adopted. [eng] |
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Henry Morton Stanley
American journalist and adventurer, who took New York Herald's mission to go and find Livingstone. In his diary HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE (1872) Stanley presents his story with stoicism, without magnifying his epic adventure of hardships of the journey. He traveled 700 miles in 236 days before he found the ailing Scottish missionary-explorer David Livingstone on the island of Ujiji. [eng] |
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