Alegrias1
There are no facts though UG, they have no idea what happened to them. So after they sailed into the ice, that would be the end.....until they found the remains in 2004, I think?
I didn't realise it was going to be so much of a horror movie but I am enjoying it.
We do know some things about what happened. However what’s interesting is how Victorian England reacted to the failure of the expedition and how they desperately needed to find someone to blame and not the brave men themselves for some things
“Though research in the 1990s [PDF] and in 2016 strongly supported the cannibalism account, most Victorians thought it inconceivable that Royal Navy men would resort to "the last dread alternative." Charles Dickens captured the racist sentiment of the time when he wrote in his magazine Household Words, "No man can, with any show of reason, undertake to affirm that this sad remnant of Franklin's gallant band were not set upon and slain by the Esquimaux themselves … We believe every savage to be in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel." Yet physical evidence collected over the past 160 years has consistently proven the accuracy of Inuit oral histories of the expedition's final days.”
I think this one small example says something very pertinent about how history is initially written up, by whom, whose accounts are given credibility and how it’s nearly always nationalistic and how it needs to be revisited and revised.
