#[[The link leads you to a book Sir George Back actually gifted to Gore just before the Franklin expedition sailed off]]
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Crozier: Sir John, myself, Mr. Blanky and Mr. Reid: Only four of us at this table are Arctic veterans.
Gore, who was literally a Mate on the Terror during Sir George Back's Arctic expedition in 1836/37: Okay :,)
#Francis Crozier#Graham Gore#Franklin Expedition#Polar Exploration#The Terror#AMC The Terror#(.fandom | .amc terror)#(.person | .francis crozier)#(.person | .graham gore)#[[The link leads you to a book Sir George Back actually gifted to Gore just before the Franklin expedition sailed off]]#[[It's now in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich]]#[[Gotta have some proof for my claims since the musters of the Terror from 1836/37 have not been digitalised yet]]#[[Have fun crying with me]]#[[Oh and did you know that Crozier first met Gore when he was eleven?]]#[[Before going to the Arctic for the first time with Sir William Edward Parry Crozier was a midshipman on the HMS Dotterel]]#[[The captain? One John Gore]]#[[Look at O'Byrne's A Naval Biographical Dictionary for reference]]#[[Gore Sr. apparently signed up young Graham as a volunteer on the Dotterel to make him join the Navy]]#[[Crozier (24): Wtf is this?]]#[[Gore (11): Hiiiii]]#[[Maybe I should make a second post about this]]
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