The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... Officers were permitted to engage in private trading , to distil spirit from the grain which they grew with convict labour , and to make large profits on the sale of this pestilent stuff . They established a monopoly over all imported ...
... Officers were permitted to engage in private trading , to distil spirit from the grain which they grew with convict labour , and to make large profits on the sale of this pestilent stuff . They established a monopoly over all imported ...
Page 102
... officers of the Corps , and the privates also , had by this time made Macarthur's cause their own . A mutiny was imminent.1 On the following morning , January 26 , Macarthur was arrested and lodged in the common gaol . The six officers ...
... officers of the Corps , and the privates also , had by this time made Macarthur's cause their own . A mutiny was imminent.1 On the following morning , January 26 , Macarthur was arrested and lodged in the common gaol . The six officers ...
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... officers and non - commissioned officers.4 Latrobe's police were afterwards severely criticised by his successor , Sir Charles Hotham : " The gold - fields have been the resort of young officers possessing no particular qualifications ...
... officers and non - commissioned officers.4 Latrobe's police were afterwards severely criticised by his successor , Sir Charles Hotham : " The gold - fields have been the resort of young officers possessing no particular qualifications ...
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