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John Ross

noun

Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856). Synonyms: Ross, Sir John Ross.

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... Watie's regiment of Cherokees was scarcely in either marching or fighting trim. The following letter from John Ross to Pike, which is number nine in the John Ross Papers in the Indian Office, is elucidative. It is a copy used in the action against John Ross at the close of the war. The italics indicate underscorings that were probably not ...

— The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War • Annie Heloise Abel

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... reliable copy of three known by Mr. Sobieski Stuart, of which one was said to exist in the library of the Monastery of St. Augustine at Cadiz, and another had been obtained from an Edinburgh sword-player and porter named John Ross, was in the possession of the learned editors, and had been given by the fathers of the Scots College at Douay to Prince Edward Stuart, from whom it had, in some unspecified but doubtless extremely romantic ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

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... north latitude, the nearest residents to the North Pole of any human beings known to exist on the globe. He was the only person ever brought to this country from so high a northern latitude. His tribe was met with by the late Sir John Ross, during his voyage in 1818, and was by him called the ...

— Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian - A Memoir • Thomas Boyles Murray

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Words linked to "John Ross" : adventurer, explorer, Sir John Ross, Ross