Thomas Fletcher Waghorn
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Thomas Fletcher Waghorn
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Thomas Fletcher Waghorn was an English sailor, navy officer, and postal pioneer who promoted and claimed the idea of a new route from Great Britain to India overland through Egypt prior to the development of the Suez Canal. Waghorn claimed to have demonstrated the route for the first time in 1829-30 and that it reduced the journey from over 11,000 miles (18,000 km) to 6,000 miles (9,700 km) and while steamships around the Cape of Good Hope took about three months, his route took between 35 and 4
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British postal pioneer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fletcher_Waghorn
date created:
2004-09-28T14:52:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:41:45Z
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