biography
| name: |
Lemaire or Le Maire, Jacques
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pronunciation:
[luhmair]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1585–1616)
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| biography:
| Dutch explorer, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the son of Isaac Lemaire. In two ships fitted out by his father, in 1615 he was sent out with Willem Schouten in De Eendracht and De Hoorn to break the VOC's (United East India Company) monopoly by finding a route to the S continent round Cape Horn (named after their ship). The VOC's charter specified the Straits of Magellan as the only route. The Hoorn was lost off Patagonia, and on arrival in Jacatra (Java) of the Eendracht, governor-general Coen arrested Lemaire and confiscated his ship for breach of the licence and sent him back to Holland, but he died en route. His father later won a law-suit against the VOC at the Supreme Court for compensation, but use of the new route except by the VOC was still banned. |
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