Discovery had caught up with a British…
October 1795 CE
Vancouver had departed the ship to report; Baker brings Discovery safely home to Long Reach on the Thames, completing her four-and-a-half-year mission on October 20, 1795.
The expedition has returned to a Britain more interested in its ongoing war than in Pacific explorations.
Vancouver will be attacked by the politically well-connected Menzies for various slights.
Pitt will challenge Vancouver to a duel and attempt to beat him on a London streetcorner.
Vancouver is no match for the powers ranged against him, and he is dying besides.
His massive cartographical work will be a few hundred pages short of completion at his death on May 10, 1798, but will be finished by Puget.
Geopolitically, the expedition has helped remove Spain as a power in the North Pacific and to define the boundaries of the Anglo-American conflict there.
It has also assisted the unification of the Kingdom of Hawai'i and further established British domination of Australia-New Zealand.
The expedition leaves the world hundreds, perhaps thousands, of place-names and plant species names.
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