How did captain hook become a captain?

Captain Hook is the buccaneer villain in the movie "Peter Pan"

James Cook was the son of a farm labourer. He didn't have much of an ambition, so he was apprenticed to a haberdasher/grocer at the age of 16. He didn't show much promise here, either, having little...

James Cook became captain in 1775, at age 47, and barely four years before he died.

"O, Captain, My Captain" found in Walt Whitmans 'Leaves of grass' is a poem about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. The Captain is Lincoln.

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