Capt oates biography of michael

The book offers a different perspective from the traditional myth of Scott's heroic failure and Oates' suicide.

Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, born in , was from a family of explorers.

Lawrence Edward Grace 'Titus' Oates was a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the Boer War, a successful jockey and paid £1, to join Scott's.

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Articles by Michael Smith

15th March, in Biography & Memoir, History

Captain Lawrence Oates: Antarctic tragedy

‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’Most people will know that these simple words, so famous and so often repeated over the past decades, were uttered by Captain Lawrence Oates who, according to legend, gallantly gave his life to help save his comrades in an Antarctic&#;

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I Am Just Going Outside: Captain Oates - Antarctic Tragedy

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Not very impressed by the illegitimate child thing -- Smith spends the whole book recounting Oates' tendency to solitude, the way his mother dominated his life, his lack of charm with women, and then at the last minute pulls out an illegitimate child for which there is little evidence other than the alleged child's claim and a photo of her son. I don't really want to get into guessing whether she was or wasn't Oates' illegitimate daughter, but it's pure hearsay here.

I haven't read Scott's journals and right now, I don't really want to. I bought this for my mother, but she handed it off to me. Scott and his men were her heroes, but even her opinion of Scott sank after reading this, and mine is somewhere below sea level. He wasn't suited to be a leader of men. Oates was. It's a pity it wasn't his idea from the start, in a way. They'd have done it with dogs as soon as he saw what they could do, and they'd have reached the Pole and made it back too.

Anyway, Smith's biography is interesting and in-depth, and mostly at least attempts to seem impartial, with evidence from both men and those who knew them. It is, of course, desperately depressing, and I feel no shame in admitting that I cried, because with a

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I Am Equitable Going Outside: Captain Machinator - Polar Tragedy

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