“that cruelty was not permissible”
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Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Besides his discovery of Livingstone, he is mainly known for his search for the sources of the Nile and Congo rivers, the work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of…
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culture · Welsh journalist and explorer (1841–1904) · journalist · explorer · politician · writer · also Henry Morton Stanley, Morton Stanley, H. M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Henry Stanley
Born 28 January 1841 · Died 10 May 1904 · Q171421
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2026· 8 entries
“who do their duty and the Zanzibaris have quite satisfied me on this and on previous expeditions.”
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“Often since have I learned how necessary is the application of force for the establishment of order. There comes a time when pleading is of no avail.”
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“a pathological fear of women, an inability to work with talented co-workers, and an obsequious love of the aristocratic rich.”
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“the savage only respects force, power, boldness, and decision”
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“For the half-castes I have great contempt. They are neither black nor white, neither good nor bad, neither to be admired nor hated. They are all things, at all times ... If I saw a miserable, half-starved negro, I was always sure to be told, he belonged to a half-caste. Cringing and hypocritical, cowardly and debased, treacherous and mean ... this syphilitic, blear-eyed, pallid-skinned, abortion of an Africanized Arab.”
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“insecurity about his background”
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“Doctor Livingstone, I presume?”
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2020· 1 entry
To consider new wording for a plaque on the St Asaph obelisk, and a public consultation and vote was held in 2021 over a proposal to remove the Denbigh statue, which resulted in an 80 per cent majority for retaining the
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2004· 1 entry
Welsh journalist Tim Butcher wrote his book Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
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1992· 1 entry
Called Stanley: The Search for Dr
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1971· 1 entry
The BBC produced a six-part docudrama series entitled Search for the Nile
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1904· 1 entry
Died 1904-05-10.
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1899· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (1899).
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1897· 1 entry
And served in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist member for Lambeth North from 1895 to 1900
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1895· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 26th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1895–1900).
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1891· 2 entries
Rubber extraction was divided among concessionaires
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“You can find it on almost any tree. As we made our way through the forest, it was literally raining rubber juice. Our clothes were full of it. The Congo has so many tributaries that a well-organized company can easily extract a few tons of rubber per year here. You only have to sail up such a river and the branches with rubber hang almost up to your ship.”
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1890· 3 entries
Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (1890).
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Was given the Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold by King Leopold II
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On the 25th anniversary of Leopold's reign as Belgian monarch, Stanley was taken from one banquet hall to another, proclaimed a hero
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1888· 1 entry
Mapped the Ruwenzori Range and Lake Edward, and emerged from the interior with Emin and his surviving followers at the end of 1890
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1886· 1 entry
Stanley led the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition to "rescue" Emin Pasha, the governor of Equatoria in the southern Sudan, who was threatened by Mahdist forces
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1883· 1 entry
Won Vega Medal (1883).
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1879· 1 entry
Stanley left for Africa for his first mission, ostensibly working for the Comité d'études du Haut-Congo, under Leopold's orders
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1878· 1 entry
Awarded Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (1878).
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1877· 1 entry
Not long after one of Stanley's expeditions, Farler met with African porters who had been part of the expedition and wrote, "Stanley's followers give dreadful accounts to their friends of the killing of inoffensive nativ
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1874· 1 entry
The New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph financed Stanley on another expedition to Africa
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1873· 1 entry
Won Patron’s Medal (1873).
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1872· 2 entries
“If Europeans will only ... study human nature in the vicinity of Stanley Pool (Kinshasa), they will go home thoughtful men, and may return again to this land to put to good use the wisdom they should have gained ... during their peaceful sojourn.”
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“prepared to admit any black man possessing the attributes of true manhood, or any good qualities ... to a brotherhood with myself.”
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1871· 1 entry
Which was likely secured by Horace Waller, a member on the committee of the Anti-slavery Society and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
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1870· 1 entry
Stanley undertook several assignments for the Herald in the Middle East and the Black Sea region, visiting Egypt, Jerusalem, Constantinople, the Crimea, the Caucasus, Persia and India, during which time he apparently car
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1868· 1 entry
Was the first to be published, as he had bribed a telegraph operator to send his story first, even before the official army report
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1867· 1 entry
The emperor of Ethiopia, Tewodros II, held a British envoy and others hostage, and a force was sent to effect the release of the hostages
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1841· 1 entry
Born 1841-01-28.
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