BRAINARD, David Legge [1856-1946] -- American arctic explorer, Brigadier General

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Chronology
Selected Works
Bookmarks (off-site links)
Footnotes
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Brigadier General (1917)
Royal Geographic Society, Back Grant Award (Jun 1886)
The Explorers Club, charter member
The Explorers Club, Explorers Medal (1929)
Charles P. Daly Medal (NGS, 1925)
American Polar Society, Honorary Member (1936)

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BRAINARD, David Legg

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He was the last survivor (in 1935) of the United States’ Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-84), an ordeal of unimaginable hardship. Only six survivors were rescued in 1884 after being stranded in the Arctic for two years in the harshest conditions.

Chronology

1882/05/13	New farthest north record set at latitude 83º 24’ N. and longitude 40º 46’ W. — surpassing 300 years of British Arctic record-breaking.¹
1886	Royal Geographic Society, Back Grant Award
1917	Brigadier General
1925	Charles P. Daly Medal
1929	The Explorers Club, Explorers Medal
1936	American Polar Society, Honorary Member

Selected Works

The Outpost of the Lost: An Arctic Adventure (1929, journal)

Six Came Back: The Arctic Adventure of David L. Brainard (1940)

Bookmarks (off-site links)

Works by David+Legge+Brainard
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  - BookFinder.com: Search Results (Matching Titles) Books by or about David+Legge+Brainard
  - Beautiful 1899 document signed by last survivor of the United States’ Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
Works about
- Biographical
  - Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
    - THE ARCTIC SAGA OF DAVID LEGG BRAINARD
    - Bacon, B.C; The Rescue at Cape Sabine
    - Three years of Arctic service by Greely, A. W.
  - Chronologies, synopses, encyclopedias
  - 2d Dragoons History Center » Famous Dragoons
  - A Biographical Sketch of Gen. David L. Brainard, US Army by Glenn M. Stein, FRGS
  - David Legge Brainard In Men of Mark in America. by Merrill Edwards Gates
  - Men and Women of America
- Genealogy
  - More Norway Marriages from "Norway Tidings"
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
  - Suites
  - David Legg Brainard, Colonel, United States Army Arlington National Cemetery
  - David Legg Brainard (1856 - 1946) - Find A Grave Memorial
  - BrainardCollection.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Historic and Unique Collection of Medals and Artifacts of General David L. Brainard, USA (1856-1946)
    Last survivor of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, 1881-84 (Greely Expedition)
    From the Polar Collection of Glenn M. Stein, FRGS
    August 2007
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- Discussion, interviews
Collections, archives - Papers
- The Papers of David L. Brainard in the Dartmouth College Library
Historical context, background
- Period articles
- Places (residences, etc)
  - Lady Franklin Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- HMS Alert (1856) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Greely, Adolphus In Exploring Polar Frontiers, with a detailed description of the horible conditions of the expedition.
Gallery
- David Legg Brainard - Google Image Search

Bookmarks:2009-02-23 13:52:04

Footnotes

¹	Thanks to Glenn M. Stein, FRGS, for permission to use the this quote from his biography on General Brainard, which is © 2007 by Mr. Stein.

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