Comment: A rough summary of Burke & Wills
Submitted: Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:51
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Member - Bruce and Di T (SA)
I think the more interesting person is
John McDouall Stuart who really was an explorer. The Royal Society of Victoria showed they were inept in the way the exploration was organised. Burke was absolutely the wrong person to lead such an expedition and Stuart was originally on their list and probably should have led the expedition. Instead he did it by himself.
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Reply By: Sigmund - Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 at 14:53
Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 at 14:53
Burke was 'our sort of chap', hah! Yes, a disastrous choice.
What's harder to explain is the loyalty of his men. His incompetence was evident early on and they stuck by him.
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Reply By: MEMBER - Darian, SA - Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 at 17:18
Saturday, Jul 25, 2015 at 17:18
Yep....Stuart was the master of the day...fast, economical, thorough, effective...you name it ....(pity Wills wasn't on team Stuart....the B&W fiasco wasn't his fault). With
Bourke making his first
camp at Essendon....and leaving a ton of sugar behind at Swan
Hill, "the writing was probably on the wall".??
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