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About Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kent Kane was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Africa Squadron. He was assigned as a special envoy to the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and as a surveyor in the United States Coast Survey.
Everything about Elisha Kent Kane →- Occupation
- explorer, military officer, physician, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 28, 1820, February 3, 1820
- Died
- February 16, 1857