Scott's last diary entry
1912 · Event
Pinned in the tent by a nine-day blizzard, eleven miles from the supplies at One Ton Depot, Scott writes his last words as Wilson and Bowers lie dying beside him: 'It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.' The diary, recovered with the bodies, makes the defeat immortal.
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- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)