History Video Creator, focus on Colonialism and the British Empire
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Definitely my favourite First Fleet 1st hand account, great read, the best for those first coming to the subject.
On this day in 1834 the Battle of Pinjarra was fought between British forces and the Bindjareb Noongar people in Western Australia.
This event is now more often described as a massacre. I think historian John Connor makes a fair case that battle is the correct word:
The Colonel Pride Review retweeted
Before Gloise and HMS Warrior, there was Napoleon (1850), the first steam-powered ship of the line.
A massively neglected transitory battleship between the era of experimental steam sloops of war of the 1840s and the iron-hulled warships and ironclads of the 1860s.
English seaman Edward Coxere 1633–1694 served in virtually every serious European fleet of his times before packing it and becoming a Quaker.
You likely don't know who Francis Ewer was.
He was a London criminal transported to Australia.
His was one of the great, if sometimes horrific, stories of the Australia-New Zealand Colonial frontier.
Some people should know his story.
I invite you to be such a person.
Link below
The Colonel Pride Review retweeted
Battle of Waireka, 1st Taranaki War.
Five settlers were massacred, so troops went out to bring outer settlers to safety. Battle ensued, the militia were trapped at a farm below the Pah. The army troops withdrew, leaving the militia, and Captain Cracroft's sailors saved the day.
If they were banned then you would be reading them by downloading as a badly scanned pdf from a Russian website.
British sea power was not great because of the intrinsic qualities of the country.
Rather the country invested time and resources in becoming a maritime state. Britain chose, and worked for, greatness.
When we took it for granted we lost it.
This lesson is vital.
