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Cavendish, Thomas

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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An English navigator, fitted out three vessels to cruise against the Spaniards; extended his cruise into the Pacific; succeeded in taking valuable prizes, with which he landed in England, after circumnavigating the globe; he set out on a second cruise, which ended in disaster, and he died in the island of Ascension broken-hearted (1555-1592).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Cavendish, Thomas'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/cavendish-thomas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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