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Forbes, Robert Bennet

(Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. 1804-1889 Boston, Mass.) : Kapitän, Diplomat, Kaufmann, Schiffsbesitzer, Schriftsteller

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Economics and Trade / History : China - Europe : France / History : China - United States of America / Index of Names : Occident / Literature : Occident : United States of America

Chronology Entries (6)

#	Year	Text	Linked Data
1	1817	Robert Bennet Forbes reist als Mitglied der Mannschaft auf der Canton Packet nach Guangzhou.	Document: Wikipedia : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia. (Wik, Web)
2	1819	Robert Bennet Forbes reist als Mitglied der Mannschaft auf der Canton Packet nach China	Document: Wikipedia : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia. (Wik, Web)
3	1830-1834	Robert Bennet Forbes ist Angestellter der Russell and Company in China.	Document: Shavit, David. The United States in Asia : a historical dictionary. (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1990). http://books.google.ch/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=john+c.+caldwell+china &source=bl&ots=YzqLAEaahs&sig=_WXEtGwgTsE1GI3E1LYsEJcvUSM&hl=de&sa=X&ei=RmjTU -75Bemd0QW4tYHIAg&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=john%20c.%20caldwell%20china&f=false. (Shav1, Publication)
4	1834	Robert Bennet Forbes kehrt nach Boston zurück.	Document: Robert Bennet Forbes papers : http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0039. (Forb1, Publication)
5	1839-1840	Robert Bennet Forbes reist auf der Canton Packet nach China und ist Leiter von Russell and Company.	Document: Robert Bennet Forbes papers : http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0039. (Forb1, Publication)
6	1849-1851	Robert Bennet Forbes hält sich in China auf. Er arbeitet für Russell and Co. und wird Vize-Konsul des amerikanischen und französischen Konsulats in Guangzhou.	Document: Robert Bennet Forbes papers : http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0039. (Forb1, Publication)

Bibliography (6)

#	Year	Bibliographical Data	Type / Abbreviation	Linked Data
1	1838-1840	Forbes, Robert Bennet. Letters from China : the Canton-Boston correspondence of Robert Bennet Forbes, 1838-1840. Compiled and edited, and with background essays, by Phyllis Forbes Kerr. (Mystic, Ct. : Mystic Seaport Museum, 1996). http://leddynamic.net/letters-from-china-the-canton-boston -correspondence-of-robert-bennet-forbes-1838-1840.pdf.	Publication / Forb2	Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web) Person: Kerr, Phyllis Forbes
2	1844	Forbes, Robert Bennet. Remarks on China and the China trade. (Boston : Samuel N. Dickinson, 1844). http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2554071.	Publication / Forb3	Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web)
3	1849	Forbes, Robert Bennet. Letters from Robert Bennet Forbes in England and en route to China to John Murray Forbes. ([S.l. : s.n.], 1849). [Online Cornell University].	Publication / Forb6	Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web)
4	1855	Forbes, Robert Bennet. On the establishment of a line of mail steamers from the western coast of the United States, on the Pacific, to China. (Boston : Boston journal office, 1855). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011638911.	Publication / Forb5	Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web)
5	1892	Forbes, Robert Bennet. Personal reminiscences ; to which is added rambling recollections connected with China. (Boston : Little, Brown, 1892). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009025852.	Publication / Forb4	Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web)
6	2015	Robert Bennet Forbes papers : http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0039.	Publication / Forb1

Secondary Literature (1)

#	Year	Bibliographical Data	Type / Abbreviation	Linked Data
1	1839	Personal letters from Robert Bennet Forbes to Rose Smith Forbes from China. In : Forbes Family Papers / Massachusetts Historical Society. (1839).	Publication / Forb7	Cited by: Worldcat/OCLC (WC, Web)