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	Dixon Denham
		Finding the promised escort not forthcoming, Denham, whose energy was boundless, started for England to complain of the duplicity of the pasha of Tripoli.
		Denham, who had reached Marseilles, consented to return, the escort was forthcoming, and Murzuk was regained in November 1822.
		The raiders were defeated, and Denham barely escaped with his life.
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	Dixon Denham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dixon Denham (January 1, 1786-May 8, 1828) was an English explorer in West Central Africa.
		Denham, who had reached Marseilles, consented to return, the escort was forthcoming, and Murzuk was regained in November 1822.
		He explored the western, south and south-eastern shores of Lake Chad, and the lower courses of the rivers Waube, Logone and Shari.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dixon_Denham (345 words)

	SIR JOHN DENHAM - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOHN DENHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1655 an order was given that Denham should restrict himself to some place of residence to be selected by himself at a distance of not less than 20 m.
		While Denham was recovering, his wife died, poisoned, it was said, by a cup of chocolate.
		Denham survived her for two years, dying at his house near Whitehall in March 1669.
	50.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DENHAM_SIR_JOHN.htm (981 words)

	Dixon Denham (1786-1828), Soldier and traveller
		Denham was a soldier who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars and was decorated with the Waterloo medal.
		In 1821 he volunteered to join one of several expeditions, sent by the British government, to explore the African interior.
		After difficulties with the Pasha of Tripoli, and weakened by malaria, the expedition struggled across the Sahara to become the first Europeans to see Lake Chad in 1823.
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	DIXON DENHAM - LoveToKnow Article on DIXON DENHAM
		Denham, who had reached Marseilles, consented to return, the escort was forthcoming, and Murzuk was regained in November 5822.
		In 1828 he was appointed governor of Sierra Leone, but after administering the colony for five weeks died of fever at Freetown on the 8th of May 1828.
		See Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822-1824 (London, 1826), the greater part of which is written by Denham; The Story of Africa, vol.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DENHAM_DIXON.htm (356 words)

	Dixon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dixon is the name of several places in the United States of America:
		Dixon Entrance - part of the Inside Passage between Alaska and Canada
		Matthew Charles Dixon - recipient of the Victoria cross
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	Denham, Major Dixon, and Captain Hugh Clapperton and Doctor Oudney, NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Denham, Major Dixon, and Captain Hugh Clapperton and Doctor Oudney, NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824...Extending Across the Great Desert...and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire.
		Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, traveled from Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due south to Lake Tchad, with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan.
		This narrative is compiled primarily from Denham's journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk.
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	UniMaps.com - West Africa Explored
		It was intended that Oudney was to become British Consul to the Bornu, and the expedition was to again attempt to map the course of the Niger river.
		Denham gets as far as Marseilles and learns that the Oudeny/Clapperton expedition was readying to cross the Sahara.
		On 4 February 1823 Denham was able to record the discovery of Lake Chad, then onto Kakawa, where the festering leadership problems erupted.
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	Dixon Denham -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Following service in the Royal Navy, he joined explorers Dixon Denham and Walter Oudney in a British government expedition that journeyed southward from Tripoli across the Sahara.
		Willie Dixon exerted an extraordinary influence on modern blues and the emergence of rock and roll as the composer of many blues classics.
		U.S. composer Henry Dixon Cowell was one of the most innovative composers of the 20th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9010882 (790 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Kouka
		Denham s brief was to continue research into a route to Timbuctoo from the north coast of Africa.
		The engravings, after original drawings by Denham and Clapperton, are superbly engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time.
		This exciting narrative is compiled primarily from Denham's journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk.
	www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Kouka (1792 words)

	Discoverers Web: Hugh Clapperton
		The explorers were an Edinburgh doctor and botanist, Walter Oudney, a naval lieutenant, also from Edinburgh, Hugh Clapperton and an army officer, Dixon Denham.
		In spite of all they had been through, Clapperton and Denham heartily despised each other, yet they were forced to spend day after day in each other's company.
		Denham, too, became depressed by the intense hardships of the return journey.
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/clapperton.html (1705 words)

	Hugh Clapperton Biography / Biography of Hugh Clapperton Biography
		Clapperton accepted Oudney's invitation to accompany him, and in 1822, with Maj. Dixon Denham, they set out from Tripoli to cross the Sahara.
		Clapperton and Denham met near Lake Chad and returned to England on June 1, 1825.
		Clapperton and Oudney's role in the first expedition to Lake Chad was minimized by Dixon Denham, who claimed most of the credit for himself in his Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824 (1826).
	www.bookrags.com /biography-hugh-clapperton (520 words)

	Search Results for Dixon - Encyclopædia Britannica
		In 1830 John Dixon established a ferry service and tavern there on his mail route between Peoria and Galena.
		English navigator whose exploration of the western coast of North America helped to establish a profitable English fur trade in what is now British Columbia.
		British surveyor who, working with fellow surveyor Charles Mason, established the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, known since as the Mason and Dixon Line.
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	The (foolhardy?) quest for Timbuktu \| csmonitor.com
		The young man who found Timbuktu - and lived - could expect to be greeted as a hero, paid handsomely for the right to publish his memoirs, and be rewarded with a job exceeding anything he might have hoped for had he not entered the race for Timbuktu.
		Dixon Denham, for example, never made it to Timbuktu.
		Instead, while attempting to reach the fabled city, he stumbled upon Lake Chad and charted much of its vast shore.
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	Exploring Africa - Island 4
		McQueen had first proposed his theory some five years earlier, but it would not be conclusively demonstrated until the report of Richard and John Lander nearly ten years later.
		Dixon Denham; Hugh Clapperton, 1788-1827; and Walter Oudney
		In 1817, the scholarly Sultan Bello had succeeded his father as Sultan of Sokoto, the centre of the huge Fulani empire established over the previous decade in the Jihad led by Usman dan Fodio.
	www.sc.edu /library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa4.html (1154 words)

	DENHAM, DIXON (1786–182... - Online Information article about DENHAM, DIXON (1786–182...
		Here Denham, against the wish of Oudney and Clapperton, accompanied a slave-raiding expedition into the Mandara high-lands See also:
		The raiders were defeated, and Denham barely escaped with his See also:
		part of which is written by Denham; The See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DEM_DIO/DENHAM_DIXON_17861828_.html (373 words)

	For sale properties - Denham Springs, Livingston Parish / Louisiana
		In Denham Springs a 3 bedroomed house is for sale.
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	Sahara, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Dixon Denham, River Niger, North Africa, Tripoli, Lake Chad, Bight of Benin, ...
		Sahara, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Dixon Denham, River Niger, North Africa, Tripoli, Lake Chad, Bight of Benin, Who was the first explorer of the Sahara?: -, Sahara, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Dixon Denham, River Niger, North Africa, Tripoli, Lake Chad, Bight of Benin, -
		In 1822, Hugh Clapperton, a young naval lieutenant, agreed to go with Walter Oudney and Dixon Denham to try and discover the source of the River Niger in North Africa.
		Having established that none of the rivers flowing into Lake Chad was associated with the Niger, Clapperton returned to England and wrote a book of his adventures.
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	A Selection (1) of plates from Denham & Clapperton's Travels in Africa
		A Selection (1) of plates from Denham & Clapperton's Travels in Africa
		Major Dixon Denham, Captain Hugh Clapperton and Doctor Walter Oudney in 1822, 1823 and 1824, following up on the travels of Ritchie and Lyon to Murzuk in 1818.
		The following reproduction shows the reception of the Mission by the Sultan of Bornou (done from a sketch of Major Denham's).
	www.the153club.org /denham1.html (74 words)

	Literature of Travel and Exploration -- D Entries
		Background on Bornu and the African ruler with whom Denham most closely and importantly associated.
		Well-referenced account of explorers, including Denham, associated with Barrow but virulently critical of him and ill-informed on Africa.
		Denham in Bornu: An Account of the Exploration of Bornu between 1823 and 1825 by Major Dixon Denham, Dr Oudney, and Commander Hugh Clapperton, and of their Dealings with Sheik Muhammad El Amin El Kanemi, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1973
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	Zoological Citation Sources -- N
		Translations from the Arabic, of various letters and documents, brought from Bornou and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton.
		Denham, Dixon [1786-1828] Clapperton, Hugh [1788-1827] London J. Murray 1826 xlviii, 269 p.
		Narr.Voy.Capt.Cook An Authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, in search of a north-west passage between the continents of Asia and America.
	www.zoonomen.net /cit/journ.html (4788 words)

	SULAIR: African Collection. Stanford University - Dixon Denham Horseman Image
		The rider on a horse image is from a book by Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton held in the Hoover Institution Library.
		The caption under the image, which is opposite page 64 in the book, reads -
		Translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents brought from Bornu and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/horseman-image.html (105 words)

	Find in a Library: Denham in Bornu; an account of the exploration of Bornu between 1823 and 1825 by Major Dixon Denham, ...
		Find in a Library: Denham in Bornu; an account of the exploration of Bornu between 1823 and 1825 by Major Dixon Denham, Dr. Oudney, and Commander Hugh Clapperton, and of their dealings with Sheik Muhammad El Amin El Kanemi
		Denham in Bornu; an account of the exploration of Bornu between 1823 and 1825 by Major Dixon Denham, Dr. Oudney, and Commander Hugh Clapperton, and of their dealings with Sheik Muhammad El Amin El Kanemi
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	CLAPPERTON, HUGH (1788-... - Online Information article about CLAPPERTON, HUGH (1788-...
		Worn out with his travel he returned by way of See also:
		Katsena to Kuka, where he again met Denham.
		The two travellers then set out, for Tripoli, reached on the 26th of January 1825.
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		In fact, matches, bicycles, rubber, stoves, stamps, bathrooms, even the popular use of coal did not occur until after 1800!
		Moreover, the European "explorers" (Mungo Park, Denham Dixon, Renee Caillie, and others) saw cities and economic activity that compared favorably with Europe.
		In their journals, they clearly documented the fact that the Black Africans had tremendous economies, many large cities, tens of thousands of horses, great armies, wonderful fashions, leather goods, books, and guns.
	www.afro-vision.com /AfricanotBehind (576 words)

	African Peoples' Encounters With Others - Africana Collections: An Illustrated Guide (Library of Congress - African ...
		A map of West Africa drawn for the benefit of a European traveler at the command of Muhammad Bello, sultan of Sokoto (d.
		1837), was published in 1826 in Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824 by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, and Walter Oudney, who were travelers and explorers in that region.
		The historic complexity of the encounters between African peoples and others has produced a multiplicity of materials.
	www.loc.gov /rr/amed/guide/afr-encounters.html (2214 words)

	AIM25: School of Oriental and African Studies: Bovill, Edward William
		Scope and content/abstract: Papers, 1963-1971 and undated, of and relating to Edward William Bovill, comprising notebooks and files and research material for the book Missions to the Niger, Vols I-IV (Hakluyt Society, 1962-1966).
		The papers are mainly xerox copies of correspondence in the Public Record Office relating to the explorations of Friedrich Hornemann, Mungo Park, Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Alexander Gordon Laing and Walter Oudney in Africa during the period c1800-1829.
		There are also several notebooks, which contain notes of the progress of Bovill's work.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/19/90.htm (356 words)

	AIM25: Royal Geographical Society: Denham Collection
		Extent: 3 boxes and some oversized files stored separately.
		Name of creator(s): Denham, Dixon (1786-1828) African Traveller
		Scope and content/abstract: A collection of journals, notebooks papers and letters, 1815-27, chiefly relating to the Denham / Clapperton / Oudney expedition from Tripoli to Bornu 1821-25, but also including diaries kept during the Waterloo campaign and subsequent travels around Europe.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=258&inst_id=10 (195 words)

	Cape
		With his wife, Mercedes Lackey, he co-wrote the Mage Wars trilogy (also known as the Gryphon trilogy, for the titles The Black/White/Silver Gryphon), the Mage Winds trilogy, The Mage Storms trilogy, SERRAted Edge, and Owlflight books.
		Larry Dixon also appears at the CAPE live art show.
		Artist of King Features Syndicate strip Judge Parker for nearly 40 years.
	www.capeday.com (961 words)

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