It’s really not clear when exactly Robert Falcon Scott – better known as Scott of the Antarctic – actually died. Certainly, he, Henry Bowers and Edward Wilson were all still alive, albeit in rather poor shape, when his previous diary entry was written six days earlier. It is possible that Scott survived writing this...
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1912 – Scott of the Antarctic writes the final entry in his diary
1876 – Custer is defeated and killed at Little Bighorn
General George Armstrong Custer went into battle at Little Big Horn under a number of false impressions. He was under the impression that he would be facing no more than 800 Native Americans, rather than more than twice that number – Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse had recruited assiduously, knowing that a battle was...
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