The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Part 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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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 ...
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It is clear that the 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 ...
It is clear that the 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 ...
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New South Wales had fewer diggers , many more administrative officers , and the greatest number of soldiers in Australia . In Victoria there were only forty - four soldiers up to December 1851 , when Fitzroy sent Latrobe thirty more.2 ...
New South Wales had fewer diggers , many more administrative officers , and the greatest number of soldiers in Australia . In Victoria there were only forty - four soldiers up to December 1851 , when Fitzroy sent Latrobe thirty more.2 ...
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