On May 13, 1787, the “First Fleet” of military leaders, sailors, and convicts set sail from Portsmouth, England,to found the first European colony in Australia, Botany Bay. When did the 1st fleet arrived in Australia? The First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay on20 January 1788. Leaving Port...
John Easty, Memorandum of the Transactions of a Voyage from England to Botany Bay, 1787-1793: A First Fleet Journal (Sydney: The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales, 1965), 107, 109, 112. A release of smallpox at this point could produce the epidemi...
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It is fair to say, though, that it was a success from the British perspective because, as the London County Council’s record of war service puts it “Their [the Germans’] fleet did not continue the contest, but in the darkness of the early morning of 1st June returned to port. Our...
The deployment northwards to the sea was curtailed, leaving only the left-hand Fifth Army to deal with the danger of a German advance through northern Belgium from a position opposite southern Belgium. Most important, the operations on the common frontier were designed to be offensive. “Whatever...
However, neither of those options found favour, and TfL is now procuring three new boats to replace its 53-year-old fleet. This suggests the service is likely to remain for the foreseeable future, even if it cannot be significantly expanded to meet growing demand. If the new bridges and tu...
The new English King, Charles, had given permission for them to settle the Massachusetts Bay area. VOICE TWO: The Puritans began leaving England in large groups. Between Sixteen-Thirty and Sixteen-Forty, twenty-thousan 下载文档 收藏 分享 赏 0...
Battle of Heligoland Bight:The first naval encounter of the First World War, on 28th August 1914, between the British and German fleets, in the North Sea off the North German coast Battle of Néry:The iconic action fought on 1stSeptember 1914 in the First World War: the British 1stCavalry...
On he went, leaving the men in the room, some of them quite distinguished men in their own professions, feeling that they had been crushed and degraded. Or Johnson telling Cabinet members that they wouldn’t dare walk out of his Administration, no one was going to walk out on Lyndon ...
But it is appropriate to mention that he is one of the first sailors hired with some responsibility as boatswain of the Nao Victoria, and that, before leaving Seville, he passed with the position of master to the Nao Concepción. During the months of preparation for the departure, he is me...