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  Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, John Hope  
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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Franklin, Sir John
 
DATES:1786–1847
British explorer who led a search for the Northwest Passage (1845–1847) on which he and his 129-man crew perished. A record of the expedition's discovery of the passage was found in 1857.
 
 
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  Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, John Hope  
 
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