i may be easily amused, but this is the funniest part of narrative of the euphrates expedition so far
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(from the reports of fitzjames and cleaveland respectively)
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Thinking about James Fitzjames' Worst Summer Internship Ever on the Euphrates and his boss's eccentricities because apparently Francis Rawdon Chesney buried his wife, Everilda (what a name!) with the military uniform he wore on their wedding day in 1839. This mean little man gets stuck in the Shatt-al-Arab, comes home, marries, loses his wife and then one of his rising-star former adjutants is lost in the Arctic. You can't make this stuff up.
Source: All That Remains by Dame Sue Black
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i present to you my expanded Terror Cinematic Universe (TCU) Casting
please feel free to fight me on any of these if you have better suggestions i am just a humble user of imdb dot com and longtime watcher of british television and theatre. without further ado:
Oliver Chris as Edward Charlewood, JFJ’s BFF
Hugh Dancy as Will Coningham, JFJ’s adopted brother
Aneurin Barnard as Captain William Parry (c. 1819-20 expedition)
Peter Capaldi as Captain Francis Rawdon Chesney, aka WORST BOSS EVER
Angus Imrie as Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker
Thomasin McKenzie as Eleanor Franklin
Matthew Rhys as Dr. Robert McCormick, resident bird murderer
Simon Merrells as Lieutenant Edward Bird, aka McCormick’s arch-enemy
Eddie Marsan as Dr. John Rae, Franklin searcher who got personally #cancelled by Charles Dickens & Lady Jane
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Things we don’t talk about enough in the Terror and Franklin fandoms:
Graham Gore served on the Dotteral as an 11 year old and a young Francis Crozier was the Mate. Gore’s dad was the captain.
Gore’s grandfather was a lieutenant on Captain Cook’s expedition to try and find the Northwest Passage.
The Euphrates Expedition that resulted in James Fitzjames’ walk across Mesopotamia was led by Francis Rawdon Chesney, Crozier’s namesake.
James Fairholm is wearing Fitzjames’ jacket in his daguerreotype, according to a letter he sent to his father.
John Irving was such a math nerd that his silver medal from a mathematics competition he entered was found in his grave.
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Title: "Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition carried on by Order of the British Government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. [With plates and maps.]"
Author: CHESNEY, Francis Rawdon - General, R.A
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 2356.d.6.", "British Library HMNTS 10076.eee.24."
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Date of Publishing: 1868
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