Charles Wilkes

During the American Civil War, Charles Wilkes, a Union naval officer, broke international law by capturing two Confederate diplomats en route to Europe on a neutral British ship, the Trent.

Instant Communication Can Have Bad Consequences 2011

On Nov. 8, 1861, a Union naval officer, Charles Wilkes, rashly seized Confederate diplomats James M. Mason and John Slidell from the Trent, a British mail packet, as it steamed from Havana to St. Thomas—one neutral port to another.

When Cotton Wasn't King Michael Burlingame 2011

Captain Charles Wilkes, leader of the expedition, wrote that Eights was dismissed because "his habits were not of the best."

James Eights 2009

Navy Biography of Charles Wilkes (accessed July 30, 2009)

United States Exploring Expedition 2009

This ambition was finally realized in August 1838, when under the command of Lt. Charles Wilkes, the United States Exploring Expedition, and its small complement of scientists, set sail on a four-year-long voyage in the southern seas and the Pacific Ocean.

South Sea Fur Company and Exploring Expedition 2009

Images of the five volume Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842 by Charles Wilkes and scientific texts courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution (accessed July 30, 2009)

United States Exploring Expedition 2009

In the end, command fell to Charles Wilkes, a relatively junior officer with little sea experience of any kind — with and no polar experience at all.

Three National Expeditions to Antarctica 2009

Exploring Expedition, 1838-1942, under the command of Charles Wilkes, was a significant undertaking: itexplored and charted part of the northwest coast of North America (especially Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay), Antarctica (especially a region now known as the Wilkes Coast) and Pacific islands (including Fiji and Hawaiian Islands).

United States Exploring Expedition 2009

The American naval officer, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, sailed in August, 1838, with a fleet of six vessels.

The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

Charles Wilkes, on March 14, 2008 at 6:50 am Said:

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