Name: Fort Wellington: The British in North Australia 1827-29 (en Inglés)
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Author: Derek Pugh
ISBN: 9780648142119

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Fort Wellington: The British in North Australia 1827-29 (en Inglés)

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Derek Pugh

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Derek Pugh

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Inglés

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206

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Tapa Blanda

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9780648142119

Fort Wellington: The British in North Australia 1827-29 (en Inglés)

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The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old daughter, Reveral, watched in terror. Her baby sister was already dead, hit by a slug in the first volley or drowned, but a young man lying on the sand with his intestines spilling out had to be finished off - out of mercy! Reveral, wounded in her side, was carried back to the fort in triumph, for she was worth a 5 reward from Commandant Smyth.Capturing an Australian was how the British sought to make friends with the Iwaidja, on whose lands the new British garrison of Fort Wellington was being built. It was an appalling start, but eventually, with the remarkable Captain Collet Barker in charge, friendships were established. At last, it looked like a successful trading settlement would follow, the British would live in peace with the local tribe, and they would welcome, and protect the Macassan fisherman, who came annually to the peninsula for trepang.But then, a twice ship-wrecked captain struggled ashore with the order to abandon the north coast altogether, and the soldiers, Royal Marines, convicts, their families, and even Reveral herself, wearily packed up the settlement and moved on, leaving the fort and its gardens to the Iwaidja. 'Another of our sweet, nice, wise, profitable, gingerbread, out of the way plythings is to go', rejoiced The Australian in 1829.This is the extraordinary forgotten story of the second attempt at settling Australia's north coast.With a foreword by His Honour the Honourable Austin Asche AC QC, the 13th Administrator of the Northern Territory.