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The passage of the damned : what happened to the men and women of the Lady Shore mutiny

Author :  Elsbeth Hardie

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Country
Australia
Publisher
Australian Scholarly Publishing, Australia
ISBN 9781925801651
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info 252 pages
Categories DU - Oceania (South Seas)
Product Weight 395 gms.
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In an extraordinary move, in 1797, the British government pressed a small group of French and German prisoners of war into the New South Wales Corps, gave them firearms and placed them as guards on a ship carrying sixty-six convict women and two convict men to New South Wales. The result was a mutiny some months into the voyage in which the captain of the Lady Shore was killed and the fates of all of those on board were tied together when the ship was taken to South America. The true story of what happened to those on board is told here in detail for the first time, in part through the eyes of sailor George Drinkald whose fascinating and articulate first-hand testimony has recently emerged. Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- History. | Women prisoners -- New South Wales. | Women convicts -- New South Wales. | Australian

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