A statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has ... Nine years later, he was killed by Indigenous people during an attempt to kidnap a Hawaiian chief. As a historical figure ...

David Hemblen plays Capt. James Cook in Canada: A People's History. By the nineteenth century, Europeans and Indians were into the third century of their uneven relationship but there had still ...

The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners.