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#1 John Rowlands, the man who would accomplish what Tuckey tried to do, was born in 1841. He was the first of five illegitimate children born to Betsy Parry, a housemaid. His father may have been John Rowlands, a local drunkard who died of delirium tremens, or a prominent and married lawyer named James Vaughan Horne.
#2 At fifteen, John left St. Asaph's and went to live with a succession of relatives. He was afraid he would be thrown out again, and so he decided to give himself a new name. He became Henry Morton Stanley.
#3 Stanley’s autobiography is full of exaggerations and lies. He left the Welsh workhouse in melodramatic terms: he leaped over a garden wall and escaped, he claims, after leading a class rebellion against a cruel supervisor named James Francis. But workhouse records show Stanley leaving not as a runaway but to live at his uncle's while going to school.
#4 Stanley's life was so entwined with disgrace that he had to invent events in his autobiography and journal entries about a dramatic shipwreck and other adventures that never happened. He went first to St. Louis, and then to San Francisco.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	21 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669356868
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

John Rowlands, the man who would accomplish what Tuckey tried to do, was born in 1841. He was the first of five illegitimate children born to Betsy Parry, a housemaid. His father may have been John Rowlands, a local drunkard who died of delirium tremens, or a prominent and married lawyer named James Vaughan Horne.

#2

At fifteen, John left St. Asaph's and went to live with a succession of relatives. He was afraid he would be thrown out again, and so he decided to give himself a new name. He became Henry Morton Stanley.

#3

Stanley’s autobiography is full of exaggerations and lies. He left the Welsh workhouse in melodramatic terms: he leaped over a garden wall and escaped, he claims, after leading a class rebellion against a cruel supervisor named James Francis. But workhouse records show Stanley leaving not as a runaway but to live at his uncle's while going to school.

#4

Stanley's life was so entwined with disgrace that he had to invent events in his autobiography and journal entries about a dramatic shipwreck and other adventures that never happened. He went first to St. Louis, and then to San Francisco.

#5

Stanley's career as a newspaperman took off in 1867, when he was sent to cover the Indian Wars in the American West. His reports caught the eye of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. , the flamboyant, hard-driving publisher of the New York Herald.

#6

European explorers began going to Africa in the 19th century to find minerals and slaves to feed the industrial revolution. They were hoping to find diamonds in South Africa in 1867 and gold some two decades later.

#7

The search for raw materials and Christian evangelism were all embodied in one man, David Livingstone, who traveled across Africa from the early 1840s to late 1860s. He was the first white man to cross the continent from coast to coast.

#8

Stanley’s story of finding Livingstone was shaped into a legend by his stream of dispatches and Bennett’s realization that his newspaper had one of the great human-interest scoops of the century.

#9

Stanley's expedition was a harsh and brutal taskmaster, and he saw Africa as essentially empty. He saw his future firmly linked to Africa.

#10

Stanley was rejected by his fiancée, Katie Gough-Roberts, when he returned to England. She had married an architect named Bradshaw, and when Stanley asked for the letters he had written to her, she refused to give them back except in person.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When word reached Leopold II that his son had found Livingstone, he began to build a network of people who hoped to win his favor. He was a teenager in his father’s court, and learned to assemble a network of people who hoped to win his favor.

#2

Leopold was a shrewd observer. He knew his son was sly and subtle, and he never took a chance. The fox is a survivalist, and Leopold was a constitutional monarch of a small, increasingly democratic country who became the totalitarian ruler of a vast empire.

#3

When Leopold thought about the throne that would be his, he was openly exasperated. The country he was to inherit seemed too small to hold him.

#4

Leopold, the Belgian king, was always looking for ways to expand his country's territory and trade. He tried to buy a small kingdom in Abyssinia for 30,000 francs, and he wrote that if Parliament would only concern itself with Belgium's commerce, the country would become one of the richest countries in the world.

#5

Leopold was a dedicated scholar when it came to the profits of the Spanish Empire. He spent a month in Seville, Spain, in 1862, studying the Indies archives, and he began writing to friends about his plans to visit the Dutch East Indies.

#6

Leopold II had a drive for colonies, which he wanted for two reasons: to make money and to gain power. He did not care whether the colonies were from the precious metals sought by the Spanish in South America, agriculture, or a raw material whose potential was yet to be realized.

#7

Leopold was extremely restless after ascending the throne in 1865. He had a taste for monuments, great parks, and grand palaces, and he began a lifelong program of renovations at Laeken.

#8

Leopold's sister, Charlotte, had married Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Hungary in 1864. In 1867, Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, were installed by Napoleon III of France as the figurehead Emperor and Empress of Mexico. The Mexican rebels captured and executed Maximilian.

#9

Leopold's enthusiasm for his own empire did not wane, even after his sister and brother-in-law's empire collapsed. He tried to buy the Philippines from Spain in 1875, but was once again frustrated. He then decided to find out if there was anything he could do in Africa.

#10

Leopold began planning a step to establish his image as a philanthropist and advance his African ambitions in 1876: he would host a conference of explorers and geographers.

#11

Leopold II, the king of the Belgians, hosted a conference in Brussels in 1876 to discuss the exploration of Africa. He was careful to spell everyone’s names correctly, and made sure that all the representatives were greeted appropriately.

#12

The conference was a success, and Leopold used noble rhetoric to cloak the whole enterprise in. He guaranteed that the king’s plans would receive a stamp of approval by the group he was hosting.

#13

The International African Association was established by the European guests at the conference, and Leopold was elected chairman of the international committee. He would serve for one year only, so that the chairmanship could rotate among people from different countries.

#14

Leopold had the political ability to pull off the Congo Free State, but he needed a stage to bring his idea to life. He had the public's good will, as proven by his successful Geographical Conference. He had a special kind of capital: the great public relations power of the throne itself.

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