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The Australian Defence Force's (ADF) ranks of officers and enlisted personnel in each of its three service branches of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the Australian Army, and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) inherited their rank structures from their British counterparts. The insignia used to identify these ranks are also generally ...
An Australian pioneer family in the Australian outback in 1900 has problems with local Aboriginal people arise over the possession of a waterhole. Black and White in Color: 1976 French colonists in Africa enter World War 1 with help of locals against Germans in a neighbouring colony. Black Robe: 1991: Based on the fictional novel of the same name.
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South Australia was the only British colony in Australia which was not a convict colony. It was established as a planned free colony, and began on 28 December 1836. [131] As such, garrisons were not required as prison guards, unlike the other colonies. However, Governor John Hindmarsh was escorted on HMS Buffalo by a contingent of nineteen ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2012) This incomplete list is frequently updated to include new information. This is a List of films about Australian history. Prior to European settlement Ten Canoes (2007) Early European settlement The Birth of White Australia (1928) Heritage (1935) Botany Bay (1953) Convicts For the Term of His Natural Life (1927 ...
Rank comparison chart of naval forces of Commonwealth of Nations states. Most of the 52 Commonwealth nations have their beginnings in British Empire and have shared naval traditions. By comparison, Gabon and Togo are French colonies, Mozambique is a former Portuguese colony while Rwanda is a German and later, Belgian colony.
Against the Wind is a 1978 Australian television miniseries. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia. Jon English won the Logie Award in 1979 for "Best New Talent" for his role in the miniseries as "Jonathan Garrett".
Henrietta's brother, furious that aristocratic Henrietta had paired up with a lowly servant, confronted them. Her brother shot at them and missed; she then shot her brother fatally. Sam made a false confession to save her and was sent to the penal colony in Australia. She followed him and waited seven years in abject poverty for his release.