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  2. Convicts in Australia - Wikipedia

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    The ballad "Botany Bay", which describes the sadness felt by convicts forced to leave their loved ones in England, was written at least 40 years after the end of transportation. Perhaps the most famous convict in all of fiction is Abel Magwitch , a main character of Charles Dickens ' 1861 novel Great Expectations .

  3. 1788 in Australia - Wikipedia

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    24 January – The La Perouse expedition in the Astrolabe and Boussole arrive at Botany Bay. 26 January – After Botany Bay was decided unsuitable for settlement, the First Fleet sails to Port Jackson and lands at Sydney Cove to establish a settlement (which becomes Sydney). [1] 6 February – The first female convicts disembark at Port ...

  4. List of convicts on the First Fleet - Wikipedia

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    Lemon, a labourer, was convicted for stealing a bay gelding horse (200s). [120] Originally sentenced to death, Lemon's sentence was commuted to 7 years transportation. He died during the voyage on board the Alexander on 11 March 1787. [121] Alexander: Joseph Levy London 26 May 1784 7 For more information see here: Scarborough: John Leary ...

  5. History of Australia (1788–1850) - Wikipedia

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    The major alternative to Botany Bay was sending convicts to Africa. From 1775 convicts had been sent to garrison British forts in west Africa, but the experiment had proved unsuccessful. In 1783, the Pitt government considered exiling convicts to a small river island in Gambia where they could form a self-governing community, a "colony of ...

  6. First Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The Cadigal people of the Botany Bay area witnessed the Fleet arrive and six days later the two ships of French explorer La Pérouse, the Astrolabe and the Boussole, sailed into the bay. [67] When the Fleet moved to Sydney Cove seeking better conditions for establishing the colony, they encountered the Eora people, including the Bidjigal clan.

  7. William Bryant (convict) - Wikipedia

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    William Bryant (c. 1757 – 1791) was a Cornish fisherman and convict who was transported to Australia on the First Fleet.He is remembered for his daring escape from the penal colony with his wife, two small children and seven convicts in the governor's cutter, sailing to Timor in a voyage that would come to rank alongside that of fellow Cornishman William Bligh as one of the most incredible ...

  8. Third Fleet (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    The Third Fleet comprised 11 ships that set sail from the Kingdom of Great Britain in February, March and April 1791, bound for the Sydney penal settlement, with more than 2,000 convicts aboard.

  9. Journals of the First Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The journal was first published in London in 1789 by Debrett's as A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: With an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. [73] It was one of the earliest published accounts of the First Fleet voyage and the early settlement of Australia. The book ran to several editions and was later ...