The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen · Character

The Captain

A ship captain who accompanies the Baron on sea voyages.

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Also known as the captain, Captain

The Captain shows up with force in A Trip to the North. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Captain Phipps (later Lord Mulgrave) leads the northern voyage; disputes with the Baron over credit for the bear hunt, now not on speaking terms.

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The Captain first appears in 0017 volume i xiii a trip to the north.

In A Trip to the North: Captain Phipps (later Lord Mulgrave) leads the northern voyage; disputes with the Baron over credit for the bear hunt, now not on speaking terms.

Later, in XV: The husband of the woman who fell overboard; he was sailing with a mistress when his wife attacked him.

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A Trip to the North
Captain Phipps (later Lord Mulgrave) leads the northern voyage; disputes with the Baron over credit for the bear hunt, now not on speaking terms.
XV
The husband of the woman who fell overboard; he was sailing with a mistress when his wife attacked him.
XVII
Captain Hamilton, who initially laughs at the Baron's claim but accepts the wager.
Chapter XX
Dutch captain who rescues the Baron from the sea; doubts the Baron's story but provides passage.
The Baron makes a speech to the National Assembly, and drives out all the members—Routs the fishwomen and the National Guards—Pursues the whole rout into a Church, where he defeats the National Assembly, etc., with Rousseau, Voltaire, and Beelzebub at their head, and liberates Marie Antoinette and the Royal Family.
Not directly mentioned in this chapter; included as a placeholder for canonical completeness.

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