The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. AustraliaJohn Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
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After Spain declared war on Great Britain in October 1796 , British ships with letters of marque attacked and captured Spanish vessels ; and the prizes taken in the Pacific were brought to Port Jackson . The first of these , the Nuestra ...
After Spain declared war on Great Britain in October 1796 , British ships with letters of marque attacked and captured Spanish vessels ; and the prizes taken in the Pacific were brought to Port Jackson . The first of these , the Nuestra ...
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1854 1855 689,174 posed and brought many home . By the irony of fate , many of these precipitate fortune hunters must have passed over Mount Morgan which was later discovered to be a veritable mountain of ore , and was estimated to be ...
1854 1855 689,174 posed and brought many home . By the irony of fate , many of these precipitate fortune hunters must have passed over Mount Morgan which was later discovered to be a veritable mountain of ore , and was estimated to be ...
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Enmity between selectors and squatters brought compulsory resumption of runs about 1876 , but the slow occupation of the resumed runs by grazing farmers led the McIlwraith ministry in 1882 to grant a truce to the squatters in renewed ...
Enmity between selectors and squatters brought compulsory resumption of runs about 1876 , but the slow occupation of the resumed runs by grazing farmers led the McIlwraith ministry in 1882 to grant a truce to the squatters in renewed ...
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