Admiral of the Blue Peter Rainier was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. From 1794 to 1805, Rainier
Portrait by Thomas Hickey, c. 1800–1804
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Captain George Vancouver was a Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for leading the Vancouver Expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including
Peter Rainier (Royal Navy officer, born 1741)
…covering all seas between the Cape of Good Hope and the South China Sea. Mount Rainier in the American state of Washington was named after him by George Vancouver. Rainier was born in Sandwich, Kent, on 24 November 1741. He was the grandson of Daniel Regnier, a Huguenot refugee who had fled France following the…
Possible portrait of Vancouver
The Discovery ran aground in early August 1792 on hidden rocks in Queen Charlotte Strait in the Pacific Ocean, near Fife Sound.
In The Caneing in Conduit Street (1796), James Gillray caricatured Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford's street-corner assault on Vancouver in Conduit Street, London.
Vancouver's grave in St Peter’s Church, Petersham