(1762-03-22)22 March 1762 Gloucestershire, England
Died
14 March 1821(1821-03-14) (aged 58) Florence, Tuscany
Allegiance
Great Britain United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Navy
Rank
Captain
Commands held
HMS Chatham HMS Providence HMS Penelope HMS Illustrious
Battles/wars
Napoleonic Wars
William Robert Broughton (22 March 1762 – 14 March 1821) was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a voyage of exploration through the Pacific Ocean led by Captain George Vancouver in the early 1790s.
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WilliamRobertBroughton (22 March 1762 – 14 March 1821) was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded...
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who charted them during his 1789-1791 voyage in the Argonaut. WilliamRobertBroughton sailed past them in November 1797 during his voyage of discovery...
Admiral Peter Rainier. Later in 1792, Vancouver had his lieutenant WilliamRobertBroughton explore the lower Columbia River. He named Mount Hood after Lord...
yards (27 m) long by 12 yards (11 m) wide. 1792 – British Lieutenant WilliamBroughton in George Vancouver's expedition explores the island and names the...
starting in 1733. Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse and WilliamRobertBroughton were the first non-Russian European navigators known to have passed...
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sloop-of-war under WilliamRobertBroughton. This vessel had visited Port Jackson in Australia shortly before Muir’s escape and, since Broughton had almost certainly...
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Columbia, Canada. Like other "Broughton" placenames in British Columbia, they were named for Commodore WilliamRobertBroughton of HMS Chatham, and were named...
American Museum of Natural History. Ruth S. Ludwin; Robert Dennis; Deborah Carver; Alan D. McMillan; Robert Losey; John Clague; Chris Jonientz-Trisler; Janine...
Broughton Island), Nunavut, Canada Broughton Island, New Zealand Broughton Island, Georgia, USA Broutona Island, Russia — named after WilliamRobert Broughton...
American ship under the command, first, of John Kendrick, and later Captain Robert Gray, best known for being the first American vessel to circumnavigate the...
Simushir Island in the Kuril Islands, Russia. The bay is named for WilliamRobertBroughton, who surveyed Simushir (then Marikan) in October 1796. During the...
strait later named after him. In 1796, a British naval officer, WilliamRobertBroughton, explored the Strait of Tartary, the eastern coast of the Russian...
caldera formation yet, but the hypothesis was recorded by the soldier William M. Colvig in 1865, and then reprinted in Ella Clark's Indian Legends of...
waterfalls by flow rate List of rapids of the Columbia River Dietrich, William (1995). Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River. Seattle, WA: University...
In October 1792, he sent Lieutenant WilliamRobertBroughton with several boats up the Columbia River. Broughton got as far as the Columbia River Gorge...
and Captain Vancouver named Broughton Strait, Broughton Island, and Broughton Archipelago all after WilliamRobertBroughton, who accompanied Vancouver...
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