Edmund Roberts (diplomat)
Edmund Roberts was an American diplomat. Appointed by President Andrew Jackson, he served as the United States' first envoy to the Far East, and went on USS Peacock on non-resident diplomatic missions to the courts of Cochinchina, Thailand ("Siam") and Muscat and Oman during the years 1832–6.
Peacock. Alfred T. Agate. Pencil.
USS Peacock was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy that served in the War of 1812 and later the United States Exploring Expedition. Peacock ran aground and broke apart on the Columbia Bar without loss of life in 1841.
Peacock in Antarctic ice, by Alfred Thomas Agate, while she was on the United States Exploring Expedition
A sketch of USS Peacock during the Wilkes Expedition in 1838.
Sydney in 1843.
Peacock after hitting the bar of the Columbia River.