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Name: John Hanning Speke
Birth Date: May 4, 1827
Death Date: September 18, 1864
Place of Birth: Jordans, England
Place of Death: Bath, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: explorer

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Biography of John Hanning Speke
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An English explorer of Africa, John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) solved the riddle of the Nile River by discovering its source during the course of an epic journey to and through the Great Lakes region of eastern Africa. Ever since the time of Herodotus,...
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John Hanning Speke's African travel writing appeared just prior to the great scramble for Africa, when European expeditions, financed privately or by political and scientific institutions, began systematically probing and mapping the interior of a...


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1827-1864 English explorer who discovered the source of the Nile, the longest river in Africa. Speke served in the army in India before setting out with Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) to explore the African interior. Together they discovered Lake...
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John Hanning Speke Born May 4, 1827, Ilminster, Somerset, England Died September 16, 1864, Bath, England John Hanning Speke was at the center of one of the biggest geographical controversies of the nineteenth century—the search for the source of...
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John Hanning Speke (May 4 1827 – September 15 1864) was an officer in the British Indian army, who made three voyages of exploration to Africa. In 1844 he joined the British Indian Army where he served in the Sikh War under Sir Colin Campbell. He...


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