Banks directly fostered several famous voyages, including that of George Vancouver to the northeastern Pacific ( Pacific Northwest ), and William Bligh's voyages to transplant breadfruit from the South Pacific to the Caribbean islands.

* William Bligh's letters to Sir Joseph Banks concerning the first Breadfruit Expedition

A propaganda cartoon created within hours of William Bligh's arrest, portraying him as a coward

Following Bligh's overthrow Johnston had notified his superior officer, Colonel William Paterson, who was in Tasmania establishing a settlement at Port Dalrymple ( now Launceston ), of events.

A stronger man might have sent the officers home under arrest, but it is not unlikely that if Hunter had attempted to do so he would have only precipitated the rum rebellion which took place in William Bligh's time.

* His reports on breadfruit led to William Bligh's ill-fated voyage in HMS Bounty.

Bounty mutineer James Morrison had the motto with a garter tattooed around his left leg, according to William Bligh's Notebook.

Fletcher Christian ( 25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793 ) was master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants.

Captain William Bligh's Governorship of New South Wales is mentioned and his deposition.

Nelson publicly encouraged this close bond with his officers and on 29 September 1798 described them as " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ", echoing William Shakespeare's play Henry V. From this grew the notion of the Nelsonic Band of Brothers, a cadre of high-quality naval officers that served with Nelson for the remainder of his life.

* 2005 – William P. Lawrence, American naval officer ( b. 1930 )

In August 1776, British General William Howe launched a massive naval and land campaign designed to seize New York.

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

William feared that even English neutrality would not suffice and that control over the Royal Navy was a prerequisite for a successful naval campaign against France.

His father, William, was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son.

Amalric cemented his alliance with Manuel by marrying Manuel's niece Maria Komnene in 1167, and an embassy led by William of Tyre was sent to Constantinople to negotiate a military expedition, but in 1168 Amalric pillaged Bilbeis without waiting for the naval support promised by Manuel.

* 1810 – William Froude, British naval architect ( d. 1879 )

One of the earliest expeditions to set out with the explicit intention of reaching the North Pole was that of British naval officer William Edward Parry, who in 1827 reached latitude 82 ° 45 ′ North.

* 1792 – Mount Hood ( Oregon ) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

* March 18 – William Elbridge Sewell, American naval officer and Governor of Guam ( b. 1851 )

** William Ledyard Rodgers, American admiral and military and naval historian ( d. 1944 )

* April 26 – Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, British admiral and naval hero

* October 29 – Mount Hood ( Oregon ) is named after the British naval officer Samuel Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton, who spots the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

* April 2 – A naval fleet led by Commodore William James of the East India Company captures Tulaji Angre's fortress Suvarnadurg from the Marathas.

* November 16 – William Elbridge Sewell, American naval officer and Governor of Guam ( d. 1904 )

* December 16 – William James, British naval commander ( b. 1720 )

Captain William Heath with a naval fleet moved towards Chittagong but it was a failure and he had to retreat to Madras.

His third son Sir William Peel was a naval commander and recipient of the Victoria Cross.

Austen almost never refers to specific dates or historical events in her novels, but wartime England forms part of the general backdrop to several of them: in Pride and Prejudice ( 1813, but possibly written during the 1790s ), the local militia ( civilian volunteers ) has been called up for home defence and its officers play an important role in the plot ; in Mansfield Park ( 1814 ), Fanny Price's brother William is a midshipman ( officer in training ) in the Royal Navy ; and in Persuasion ( 1818 ), Frederic Wentworth and several other characters are naval officers recently returned from service.

Commander William S. Donaldson III ( 1944 – August 22, 2001 ) was a United States Navy pilot with more than 24 years of experience in nearly all phases of naval aviation and Vietnam War veteran.

William Bligh, well known for his overthrow in the mutiny on the Bounty, was a naval officer and the fourth Governor of New South Wales.

Born to another naval Rivers, Lt. William Rivers, R. N., then stationed at Deptford, Henry Rivers followed many family traditions in being educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entering the church.

William Henry Smyth ( 1788-1865 ) devoted most of his naval career to surveying, and the results, often carried out in collaboration with French, Austrian and Neapolitan surveyors, were highly acclaimed.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

This production propelled the career of William Christie and his ensemble Les Arts Florissants.

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

Major architects to promote the change in direction from baroque were Colen Campbell, author of the influential book Vitruvius Britannicus ; Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his protégé William Kent ; Isaac Ware ; Henry Flitcroft and the Venetian Giacomo Leoni, who spent most of his career in England.

Cagney's career began winding down, and he made only one film in 1960, the critically acclaimed The Gallant Hours, in which he played Admiral William F. " Bull " Halsey.

However, his conversion was not publicized, and being Catholic did not prevent some other important musicians ( such as William Byrd ) from having a court career in England.

In his later years, Kirby, who has been called " the William Blake of comics ", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987, he, along with Carl Barks and Will Eisner, was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Poul William Anderson ( November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001 ) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

He resumed his career as a professor at the William Mitchell College of Law, where he remained until his final retirement in 1993.

" Waits also continued to further his acting career with a supporting role as Rudy the Kraut in Ironweed ( an adaptation of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ) alongside Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, in which Waits performed the song " Big Rock Candy Mountain ", as well as a part in Robert Frank's Candy Mountain, in which Waits also performed " Once More Before I Go.

Twenty years after he had received a similar windfall from the Marlborough legacy, Sir William Pynsent, a Somerset baronet to whom he was personally quite unknown, left him his entire estate, worth about three thousand a year, in testimony of approval of his political career.

The historian Eleanor Searle speculates that William was raised with the three cousins who later became important in his career – William fitzOsbern, Roger de Beaumont, and Roger of Montgomery.

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

Daley, though he practiced law with partner William J. Lynch, spent the majority of his time dedicated to his career in politics.

Critic William Baer notes that throughout his career " he constantly rose to the challenge of his own aspirations ", adding that " he was a pioneer and visionary who greatly affected the history of both stage and cinema ".

* Merton Miller, who started his academic career teaching economic history at the LSE, won the Nobel in 1990 with Harry Markowitz and William Sharpe.

William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset ( a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young Edward VI.

William Dorsheimer, moved by the scene from the island, brought Olmsted to Buffalo in 1868 to design a city park system and helped promote Olmstead's career.

Pioneering sociologist William I. Thomas ' academic career at the University of Chicago was irreversibly damaged after he was arrested under the act when caught in the company of one Mrs. Granger, the wife of an army officer with the American forces in France.

On July 24, 1981, Wyler gave an interview with his daughter, Catherine, for Directed by William Wyler, a PBS documentary about his life and career.

The next abbot was William who presided over the abbey from 1180 to 1190 and he was succeeded by Ralph Haget, who had entered Fountains at the age of 30 as a novice, after pursuing a military career.