Editing James Cook (section)

===Aftermath===
[[File:Hawaii WikiC 9015.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3
|alt=Plaque reading "Near this spot Captain James Cook met his death, February 14, 1799"
|Marker at the shoreline of Kealakekua Bay, near the spot where Captain Cook was slain.]]
Following the death of Cook and the four marines, the bodies were taken inland to a village by Hawaiians.{{sfn|Hough|1994|pp=355-360}}{{efn|Four marines, Corporal James Thomas, Private Theophilus Hinks, Private Thomas Fatchett and Private John Allen, were also killed, and two others wounded, in the confrontation.{{sfn|Samwell|1786|p=16}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Muster for HMS Resolution during the third Pacific voyage, 1776–1780 |url=http://www.captaincooksociety.com/Portals/ccs/Files/Musters/3resolution3muster1.pdf |website=Captain Cook Society |access-date=27 October 2014 |page=20 |date=15 October 2012 |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923200409/http://www.captaincooksociety.com/Portals/ccs/Files/Musters/3resolution3muster1.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>}} King took a boat to the opposite side of the bay, and was approached by a priest who offered to intercede and ask for Cook's remains to be returned; King consented.{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|pp=412-415}} Some crewmen returned to the location of the attack, and skirmishes broke out, resulting in the death of several Hawaiians.{{sfn|Hough|1994|pp=355-360}} The following day, some of Cooks remains were returned to the ''Resolution'', including some charred flesh, several bones, the skull, and the hands with the skin still attached. The crew placed the remains in a weighted box, and [[burial at sea|buried their captain at sea]].{{sfn|Hough|1994|pp=355-360}}{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|pp=412-415}}

Clerke assumed leadership of the expedition and sailed north to try again to locate the Northwest Passage.{{sfn|Hough|1994|pp=360-361}}{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|p=412}} He stopped in [[Kamchatka]] and entrusted Cook's journal, with a cover letter describing Cook's death, to the local military commander, [[Magnus von Behm]].{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=679-680}} Behm had the package delivered, overland, from Siberia to England.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=679-680}} The Admiralty, and all of England, heard the news of Cook's death when the package arrived in London{{snd}}eleven months after he died; the package had arrived in England before the surviving crew.{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|p=7}}{{sfn|Thomas|2003|p=402}}<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/910
|title=Captain Cook's third voyage (Jul 1776-Oct 1780)
|website=Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa
|access-date=28 May 2025
}}</ref>{{efn|It took seven months for the package containing news of Cook's death to travel overland from Kamchatka to England.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=679-680}}}}

Continuing north, the expedition made it to the Bering Strait, but was again blocked by pack ice, and unable to discover a Northwest Passage.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1974|pp=681-682}} Clerke died of tuberculosis on 22 August 1779 and [[John Gore (Royal Navy captain)|John Gore]], a veteran of Cook's first voyage, took command of the ''Resolution'' and the expedition. [[James King (Royal Navy officer)|James King]] replaced Gore in command of ''Discovery''.{{sfn|Collingridge|2003|p=423}} The ships returned home, reaching England on 4 October 1780.{{efn|The duration of the third voyage was 1,545 days, from 12 July 1776 to 4 October 1780.}} After their arrival in England, King completed Cook's account of the voyage.<ref>{{Cite web
|first=Ian
|last=Boreham
 |url=http://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/better-conceiv-d-than-describ-d-the-life-and-times-of-captain-james-king-1750-84-captain-cook-s-friend-and-colleague-steve-ragnall-2013 
|title=Better Conceiv'd than Describ'd: the life and times of Captain James King (1750–84), Captain Cook's Friend and Colleague. Steve Ragnall. 2013 
|publisher=The Captain Cook Society
|access-date=10 October 2017 
|archive-date=10 October 2017 
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010155340/http://www.captaincooksociety.com/home/detail/better-conceiv-d-than-describ-d-the-life-and-times-of-captain-james-king-1750-84-captain-cook-s-friend-and-colleague-steve-ragnall-2013 
|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 | title=Better Conceiv'd Than Describ'd: The Life and Times of Captain James King (1750-84), Captain Cook's Friend and Colleague
 | last=Ragnall
|first= Steve
 | isbn=9781780883595
 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EybXLq0w3MwC
 | year=2012
| pages=190-195
 | publisher=Kibworth Beauchamp
|access-date=23 May 2025
}}</ref>