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He was the son of a Scottish man. His father was a farmer. As a teenager, James did farming work with his father until the age of 18.
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Cook was in his 30s when he decided to marry Elizabeth Batts. They got married in the Barking, United Kingdom.
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It was a boy. They named him James.
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It was a boy. They named him Nathaniel.
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Sadly their daughter didn’t live long and died in the year 1771
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It was a boy. Captain Cook named him Joseph.
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His main goal was to observe the planet Venus as it passed between the earth and the sun. This would help Astro I emery’s calculate the distance of the sun from the earth.
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James and Elizabeth named him George.
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He took two ships which were the Adventure and the Resolution. His aim was to either discover the southern continent or to prove that it didn’t exist.
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It was a boy and they named him Hugh.
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His goal was to find a northwest passage across North America to Asia.
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At first, things went well with then natives of the Hawaiian islands. However things went bad when the natives stole a sailboat. Captain Cook tried to kidnap the chief to hold him as a ransom for the boat. And now a fight happened and he was killed by the natives.
