Henry morton stanley civil war
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Henry Stanley (1841 - 1904)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, c.1872 ©Elements of this biography, regarded as accurate when first published, are now contested.
Henry morton stanley civil war
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Stanley was a Welsh-born American journalist and explorer, famous for his search for David Livingstone and his part in the European colonisation of Africa.Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands on 28 January 1841 in Denbigh, Wales.
His parents were not married, and he was brought up in a workhouse. In 1859, he left for New Orleans. There he was befriended by a merchant, Henry Stanley, whose name he took. Stanley went on to serve on both sides in the American Civil War and then worked as a sailor and journalist.
In 1867, Stanley became special correspondent for the New York Herald.
Two years later he was commissioned by the paper to go to Africa and search for Scottish missiona