THE RESOLUTE DESK
Sep 15, 2020
2 minutes
By David Heim
n 1845, Sir John Franklin sailed from England to the Canadian Arctic on a quest to find the Northwest Passage. His party vanished. Seven years later, Sir Edward Belcher led a five-ship expedition to find Franklin, only to have his ships repeatedly trapped in ice. He forsook four of the ice-bound ships in 1854 to return with his crew to
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