The poem may have been inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration ( 1772 – 1775 ) of the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean ; Coleridge's tutor, William Wales, was the astronomer on Cook's flagship and had a strong relationship with Cook.

*, originally Earl of Pembroke, a 10-gun bark purchased in 1768 ; known as Endeavour Bark to distinguish her from her contemporaries listed above ; was commanded by Lieutenant James Cook in his first voyage of exploration to the Pacific, 1768 – 1771 ; sold in 1775

She was acquired in 1775, and accompanied HMS Resolution on Captain James Cook's third voyage of exploration from 1776 to 1780.

He entered the Royal Navy in 1767, and accompanied Captain James Cook in his second voyage of exploration from 1772 to 1775.

* 1775 – Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This and the withdrawal of Joseph Banks resulted in his invitation by the British admiralty to join James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific ( 1772 – 1775 ).

The route led first to the South Atlantic, then through the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean to the island of Polynesia and finally around Cape Horn back to England, where the expedition arrived on July 30, 1775.

In 1775, a second Spanish expedition under the Spanish Peruvian captain Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was sent.

The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774

In 1775, after a Moro raid on Zamboanga, Capitan Vargas led a punitive expedition against Jolo, but his force was repulsed.

The northernmost latitude he reached was 54 ° 40 ′ N. This was followed, in 1775, by another Spanish expedition, under the command of Bruno de Heceta and including Juan Peréz and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra as officers.

: " Gideon Morris was listed as one of the signers ( sic ) of the petition to annex Watauga to North Carolina in 1775, and in the Fall of the same year he served in Colonel Christian's expedition against the Indians.

In addition, he edited and published the work of his friend Peter Forsskål, the naturalist on the Arabian expedition, under the titles Descriptiones animalium, Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica and Icones rerum naturalium ( Copenhagen, 1775 and 1776 ).

He was made colonel in 1762 and took part in the British expedition against Cuba, which also included Richard Montgomery, who went on to oppose him in 1775.

In 1775, Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec stopped here long enough to build bateaux.

It was at the training place where Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec encamped in 1775, during the American Revolution.

In 1775, after Moro raid on Zamboanga, Capitan Vargas led a punitive expedition against Jolo but was repulsed.

He was one of the soldiers who accompanied Juan Bautista de Anza on the expedition that left Tubac, Arizona for California in 1775 to explore the region and colonize it.

Pérez's expedition was followed soon after by the 1775 expedition led by Bruno de Heceta and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, in which Pérez served as pilot.

Since Pérez Hernández's first expedition failed to achieve its objective, the Spanish organized a second expedition in 1775 with the same goal.

While Gage was primarily occupied with his duties as Governor of Massachusetts, Haldimand commanded the army in Boston, although Gage did not notify him of the expedition that led to the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.

Don José de Cañizares — diarist on the 1769 overland Portola expedition and who sailed with Don Juan Manuel de Ayala on the San Carlos, the first ship to enter San Francisco Bay on August 5, 1775 — named the cove north and west of Benicia Puerto de las Asunta ( Asumption Harbor in Spanish ) because he discovered it on that feast day in 1775.

* Sonora ( also Felicidad and Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe ), a Spanish schooner captained by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra in his and Bruno de Heceta's 1775 expedition from Mexico to the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada

His companion Niebuhr, who was the only one of the participants to survive the expedition, was entrusted with the care of editing his manuscripts, and published in 1775 Descriptiones Animalium-Avium, amphiborum, insectorum, vermium quæ in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål.

In December 1775 General William Howe had ordered an expedition to purchase rice and other provisions in Georgia.

In September 1775 Allen led a failed attempt on Montreal that resulted in his capture by British authorities.

In 1775 – 77, and again in 1781 he led his men against the main British forces.

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.

On May 10, 1775, less than one month after the American Revolutionary War was ignited with the battles of Lexington and Concord, the British garrison of 48 soldiers was surprised by a small force of Green Mountain Boys, along with militia volunteers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.

1775 – 1825 ) led part of the pro-American Creek forces against the Red Sticks.

Political action in the early 1770s culminated in the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, and led to all-out war in 1775.

He led the 96 men of " Morgan's Sharpshooters " from Winchester on July 14, 1775, and marched to Boston in 21 days.

The episode played a major role in defining the grievances and enabling the organized colonial resistance that led to the American Revolution in 1775.

These improvements led to the fully developed version of 1775 that actually went into production.

He served under his uncle in the navy of Tuscany, and commanded the Tuscan frigates in the Spanish led Invasion of Algiers ( 1775 ).

When war broke out in 1775, the Comte de Vergennes, then the Foreign Minister, outlined a series of proposals that led to secret French and also Spanish support of the rebel movement, and some preparations for the possibility of war, including expansion of their navies.

On October 7, 1775, a group of ships led by Captain Wallace and the HMS Rose sailed into town and demanded provisions.

He remained active in the militia, and led his own and a neighboring company of minutemen to Boston, where he received the news of the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.

Shortly after the American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, a small enterprising force led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured the key fortress at Ticonderoga on May 10.

The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison.

They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party in 1773, which led to the Intolerable Acts ( an intense crackdown by the British government ), and a counter-mobilization by the Patriots that led directly to the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

The lack of armed vessels to dispute British naval activities in coastal waters and to facilitate the seizure of commercial and military prizes prompted individual colonies to commission armed vessels, and eventually led the Continental Congress to authorize the creation of a small Continental Navy on October 13, 1775.

In 1775, a faction of Cherokees led by Dragging Canoe — angry over the tribe's appeasement of European settlers — split off to form what became known as the Chickamauga faction, which was concentrated around what is now Chattanooga.

The Illinois campaign was a series of events in the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) in which a small force of Virginia militiamen led by George Rogers Clark seized control of several British posts in the Illinois country, in what is now the Midwestern United States.