Showing posts with label Vitus Bering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vitus Bering. Show all posts

Monday, January 6, 2025

Saturday, January 6, 1725. Peter the Great gets sick, again, and instructs Vitus Bearing.

The mysterious disease that afflicted Czar Peter the Great returned, with a cold bringing it on.

In spite of the affliction, on the same day he issued instructions to Vitus Bering to prove definitely that Siberia was separated from North America and to find the nearest European settlement in the New World.

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Wednesday, October 11, 1724. Fort Drummer attacked.