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On 5 May, the party led by Lieutenant William Hobson discovered the Victory Point Note, which detailed the abandonment of Erebus and Terror, death of Franklin and other crew members, and the decision by the survivors to march south to the mainland. [55]
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By 1940, he was a captain commanding the "Moroccan company", a unit of "good shots and good skiers" who had all been decorated for bravery. A contemporary news report described the unit as having achieved "startling victories in this sector" during the war.
After Franklin's death in June 1847, Crozier took over. His fate and those of the other expedition members remained a mystery until 1859, when a note written by Crozier and James Fitzjames, captain of the Erebus, was discovered on King William Island during an expedition led by Francis McClintock. Dated 25 April 1848, the note indicated that ...
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Captain's Coxwain Portsea, Hants 33 Thomas R. Farr: Captain of the Maintop Deptford, Kent 32 Harry Peglar: Captain of the Foretop London, Middx. 37 William Goddard: Captain of the Hold Gt. Yarmouth, Norfolk: 29 Cornelius Hickey: Caulker's Mate: Limerick, Ireland: 24 Thomas Jopson: Captain's Steward Marylebone, Middx. 27 Thomas Armitage: Gun ...
The mate panics, screaming "he's come for me!" and running to the bridge; he is suddenly stabbed. A figure comes at the captain: "something white and slender that ran upon the captain noiselessly." The captain, panicked, crashes into the steel side of the deck-house and is knocked unconscious. The figure vanishes overboard, apparently without a ...
Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria, 84, Austro-Hungarian royal, Captain General of the Order of Vitéz (since 1977). [556] Ray Kogovsek, 75, American politician, member of the Colorado Senate (1970–1978) and the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado's 3rd congressional district (1979–1985). [557]