Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868-March 29, 1912) was an English explorer. He led an expedition to the Antarctic, and on January 18, 1912, reached the South Pole. Caught in a snowstorm on their return trip, both he and the four other men in his expedition died. He kept a journal up to the day of his death; his final entry on Thursday, March 29, 1912, stated:
<For God's sake look after our people.> 1868RS001
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1868RS001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Robert Falcon Scott, March 29, 1912, Thursday, in his last entry in his journal before dying. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 726.