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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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Author: Charles White
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Languages : en
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Author: Charles White
Publisher: Bathurst [N.S.W.] : C. & G.S. White, Free Press Office
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 691

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Author: Charles White
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 710

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Author: Charles White
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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The following book, as the title suggests, revolves around early Australian history. It starts from the First Fleet era, which referred to the fleet of 11 ships that brought the first European and African settlers to Australia. It was made up of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports. On 13 May 1787 the fleet under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, with over 1400 people (convicts, marines, sailors, civil officers and free settlers), left from Portsmouth, England and took a journey of over 24,000 kilometers (15,000 mi) and over 250 days to eventually arrive in Botany Bay, New South Wales, where a penal colony would become the first European settlement in Australia.

Author: Charles White
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528468299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Excerpt from Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: The Story of the Ten Governors, and the Story of the Convicts Pessimists; time and again, have raised a lachrymose wail about the stain which must always rest on the colony through the criminality of its early life; but these men can never see anything but the evil, and even that evil they would intensify for the sake of making their wailing more mournful. 'tis true that the beginning was in some measure bad, but that bad beginning was better than no beginning at all and, fresh from long and deep research among old records, I am bold to declare that the earlier convicts were not the worst criminals who came out to the colony, and that some of the darker and bloodier stains which deface the first pages of the colony's history were made by men who counted the poor chained wretches under them as worse than the offal in a charnel-house - men who came out free, who lived freely, lied and robbed and murdered freely, and who literally fattened on the blood of other mortals a thousand times better than themselves, although those mortals had' been banished from their fatherland in chains. The facts in proof of this assertion will appear in proper order; at present we must deal with events that transpired before either bond or free from Britain's shores placed foot upon Australian land for the purpose of making it their heme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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ISBN: 9780727100900
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Traces history of early convict settlements in New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land from 1788 to mid-1830s.

Author: Lloyd Evans
Publisher: Stanmore, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: John Henderson (capt. 78th Highlanders.)
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Leslie Lloyd Robson
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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A new edition of Lloyd Robson's classic study of the origins and crimes of Australia's convict settlers which introduced a valuable core of hard facts into a discussion previously dominated by anecdote and polemic. Working from a statistical sampling of convicts, and writing with sympathetic insight, Lloyd Robson examined the convicts' records: their social and economic background, age, religion and occupation; and individual cases.