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The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant is a 2005 miniseries loosely based on the life of Mary Bryant, an English girl from Cornwall who in this telling was convicted of petty theft (though the historical Mary Bryant was transported for a violent robbery and assault), [1] and who was transported to the Australian penal colony on the First Fleet with other prisoners bound for Botany Bay.
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 .
As the prisoners now have muskets, they take charge again, but as Tallant checks them for injuries, he notices plague swellings on some of the soldiers. Rather than escape, Tallant returns to Botany Bay and warns the governor of Charlotte's arrival, which would otherwise expose the colony to the fatal disease raging onboard. With his timely ...
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 ...
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 ...
George Barrington (14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804) (real name Walden [1]) was an Irish pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer (following his transportation to Botany Bay), and author. His escapades, arrests, and trials were widely chronicled in the London press of his day.
Supply reached Botany Bay on 18 January 1788; the three fastest transports in the advance group arrived on 19 January; slower ships, including Sirius, arrived on 20 January. [ 53 ] This was one of the world's greatest sea voyages – eleven vessels carrying about 1,487 people and stores [ 48 ] had travelled for 252 days for more than 15,000 ...
Botany Bay Mirages (1994) Alan J. Frost FRHistS , FAHA (29 March 1943 – 12 April 2023) [ 1 ] was an Australian historian and professor emeritus at La Trobe University . A major theme of his research involved the European exploration of the Pacific Ocean over the second half of the eighteenth century.