The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Captain Cook Day
Honouring Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British Navigator and World Explorer
The Australian Flag Society and it's President, Nigel Morris (fellow Monarchist Author who takes Cook as his namesake) is pushing for recognition of an August 22 Australian national holiday in honour of Captain Cook. And with good reason for it was Cook who wrote in his journal on August 22, 1770:
"I now once more hoisted English Coulers and in the Name of His Majesty King George the Third, took possession of the whole Eastern Coast [of New Holland] from the above Latitude down to this place by the name of New South Wales."
—from Capt. Cook's Journal, Wednesday, 22 August 1770
As the AFS notes on its website:
"Captain Cook Day is a celebration of a humble, hard worker who achieved hero status through total dedication to a great cause. In Australia, as in Hawaii, he should be treated as a "God-like" inspiration for our young people to model themselves on.
Captain Cook was indeed a man ahead of his time, seeing beyond his own culture. On the Aborigines in Australia, he wrote "In reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; they are wholly unacquainted with the superfluous conveniences so much sought after in Europe...the Earth and sea of their own accord furnishes them will all things necessary for life"."
As for his extraordinary seamanship, Lord Palliser, Cook's superior in the Navy, wrote that he was:
"... the ablest and most renowned navigator this or any country hath produced. He possessed all the qualifications requisite for his profession and great undertakings ..."
And so he was, the Englishman who charted out the great Commonwealth of today, from Quebec to Australia, to the islands of the Pacific all the way up to the west coast of Vancouver Island in present day Canada. Captain Cook lived a life of setting suns, but it was a sun that in the end could not set on his greatest of achievements - securing an empire for Britain the world over.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 1:15 p.m. | LINKS |
Honouring Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British Navigator and World Explorer
The Australian Flag Society and it's President, Nigel Morris (fellow Monarchist Author who takes Cook as his namesake) is pushing for recognition of an August 22 Australian national holiday in honour of Captain Cook. And with good reason for it was Cook who wrote in his journal on August 22, 1770:"I now once more hoisted English Coulers and in the Name of His Majesty King George the Third, took possession of the whole Eastern Coast [of New Holland] from the above Latitude down to this place by the name of New South Wales."
—from Capt. Cook's Journal, Wednesday, 22 August 1770
As the AFS notes on its website:
"Captain Cook Day is a celebration of a humble, hard worker who achieved hero status through total dedication to a great cause. In Australia, as in Hawaii, he should be treated as a "God-like" inspiration for our young people to model themselves on.
Captain Cook was indeed a man ahead of his time, seeing beyond his own culture. On the Aborigines in Australia, he wrote "In reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; they are wholly unacquainted with the superfluous conveniences so much sought after in Europe...the Earth and sea of their own accord furnishes them will all things necessary for life"."
As for his extraordinary seamanship, Lord Palliser, Cook's superior in the Navy, wrote that he was:
"... the ablest and most renowned navigator this or any country hath produced. He possessed all the qualifications requisite for his profession and great undertakings ..."
And so he was, the Englishman who charted out the great Commonwealth of today, from Quebec to Australia, to the islands of the Pacific all the way up to the west coast of Vancouver Island in present day Canada. Captain Cook lived a life of setting suns, but it was a sun that in the end could not set on his greatest of achievements - securing an empire for Britain the world over.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 1:15 p.m. | LINKS |
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