Henry Hudson's explorations laid the groundwork ... the East India Company and the optimistically named Northwest Passage Company financed another attempt. Hudson was a gifted navigator.

In 1610 Hudson set off in the Discovery on another journey for the East Indies, this time determined on making it through the Northwest Passage ... reading public. Henry Hudson died because ...

On September 2, 1609, Henry Hudson (d. 1611), an Englishman ... a hypothetical route known as the Northwest Passage. The ship sailed up the river that now bears his name, docking off Spuyten Duyvil.

Was Henry Hudson a spy ... would assert that Hudson was a friend of Captain John Smith, who sent him letters and maps detailing a possible midcontinental passage to the Pacific Ocean in the ...

On September 2, 1609, Henry Hudson (d. 1611), an Englishman ... a hypothetical route known as the Northwest Passage. The ship sailed up the river that now bears his name, docking off Spuyten Duyvil.

In 1609 the English King, James I, called upon Henry Hudson to sail to the Arctic. Hudson was eminently qualified: he had sailed through Russia's northern seas, had been across the Atlantic to ...