Why did henry stanley travel to africa
- •
Above are the cover and part of the titlepage from Stanley's book about his expedition to rescue the Emin Pasha. The illustrations on this page are also from In Darkest Africa published in 1890. Click on the pictures to see more
Henry Stanley (left) was born and baptized John Rowlands in 1841. He was the illegitimate son of a farmer and a butcher’s daughter. He spent a lot of his childhood in a workhouse, which he left when he was fifteen. He had many jobs, travelled to America, changed his name to Henry Morton Stanley, and became a journalist for the New York Herald.
Finding Livingstone
Stanley shot to fame when the newspaper sent him to “find” David Livingstone. Livingstone was in Africa, searching for the source of the Nile. He had not been heard from for several years.
Stanley made the difficult journey to Lake Tanganyika and met Livingstone in 1871. He greeted Livingstone with the famous line, “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” When he returned to Britain in 1872, his book, How I found Livingstone was a success, but the scientific community made fun of his cl
- •
Henry Morton Stanley
Welsh journalist and explorer (1841–1904)
Sir Henry Morton StanleyGCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American[1][2][a] explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of the Belgians that enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1897, and served in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist member for Lambeth North from 1895 to 1900.
More than a century after his death, Stanley's legacy remains the subject of enduring controversy. Although he personally had high regard for many of the native African people who accompanied him on his expeditions,[3]: 10–11 the exaggerated accounts of corporal
- •
Henry Morton Stanley
Born John Rowlands in Wales to an unwed woman, Sir Henry Morton Stanley’s early life was forged in hardships and tragedy. Stanley never met his father, and his mother left him with her father, who cared for him until he died when Stanley was just five years old. Another guardian abandoned him at a workhouse, where Stanley remained until age 15, travelling to America and reinventing himself as the American Henry Morton Stanley. A 17-year-old Stanley joined the “Dixie Greys” in Little Rock, Arkansas, attached to the 6th Arkansas Volunteer Regiment, an enlistment Stanley described as “the first of many blunders.” With the fall of Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862, Confederate command evacuated from Kentucky and retreated through Tennessee to Decatur, Alabama. Learning of Gen. U. S. Grant’s advance down the Tennessee River, Confederate command ordered the force of nearly 40,000 troops to engage the Federals at Shiloh, Tennessee. After two days of marching from Corinth, the men formed a line of battle in the early morning hours of April 6. The Confederates
Copyright ©boottry.pages.dev 2025