The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1933 - Great Britain |
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CHAPTER IV THE EXTENSION OF SETTLEMENT ( 1806-1825 ) FOR the purpose of a penal settlement there was no need of more territory than was available at and around Sydney . Norfolk Island was a useful adjunct , as a place for the ...
CHAPTER IV THE EXTENSION OF SETTLEMENT ( 1806-1825 ) FOR the purpose of a penal settlement there was no need of more territory than was available at and around Sydney . Norfolk Island was a useful adjunct , as a place for the ...
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In a letter of May 1803 , King explained his motives for authorising a settlement on the Derwent . " My reasons for making this settlement are the necessity there appears of preventing the French gaining a footing on the east of these ...
In a letter of May 1803 , King explained his motives for authorising a settlement on the Derwent . " My reasons for making this settlement are the necessity there appears of preventing the French gaining a footing on the east of these ...
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Four years later the Under- Secretary , R. W. Hay , wrote to Governor Bourke that he was " not at all satisfied that we have done right in abandoning the settlement at Westernport " .4 Hay was correct in thinking that there were ...
Four years later the Under- Secretary , R. W. Hay , wrote to Governor Bourke that he was " not at all satisfied that we have done right in abandoning the settlement at Westernport " .4 Hay was correct in thinking that there were ...
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