Sebastien Pooch

See also: Pooch

Sebastien Pooch (wire of Jean Pooch) probably born with Venice in 1477, died in 1557, exploring navigator and British. He however affirmed with some of his contemporaries that he had been born with Bristol, and had lived in Venice as from 4 years; with others, which it had been born in Venice, then had been high in England.

He carried out in 1517, for the account of Henri VIII, a voyage of discovery, and visited the Brésil, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico.

He passes in 1525 to the service of the Spain, and obtained the rank of general captain on March 3rd, 1525. April 5th, 1526, it leaves with a fleet 3 ships and 150 sailors to find the Cathay and a new road towards the Moluques. It goes up the Rio of Plata and gives up his companions Francisco de Rojas, Martin Mendez, and Miguel de Rodas, with whom it had quarreled. It goes up then the Parana to its confluence with the Paraguay, built several forts on its banks, then it returns to Spain in August 1530. One reproaches him his lack of success and his control with his subordinates, and it is exiled with Oran the 1532. He is forgiven at the end of one year and returns to Seville where he finds his title of pilot major.

Without to have lost its title nor its pension, it leaves for the England in 1547 and receives the title of Large pilot there. It directs in 1552 a forwarding with the NR. E. through the Icy Mer, and establishes the first commercial relations of the Great Britain with Arkhangelsk, the relation of the voyages from both Pooch was published in Venice, 1583, and in the collections of Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas. The English wanted to oppose the discoveries of the Pooch to those of Christophe Colomb.

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