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	Battle of Vinegar Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battle of Vinegar Hill was an engagement on 21 June 1798 between forces of the British Crown and Irish rebels when over 10,000 British soldiers launched an attack on Vinegar Hill outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, then the largest rebel camp and headquarters of the Wexford rebels.
		The battle was actually fought in two locations, on Vinegar Hill itself and in the streets of nearby rebel-held Enniscorthy.
		Meanwhile, the rebel position on the Vinegar Hill was becoming more desperate and when troops crested it's eastern summit, the rebels began a withdrawal through a gap spotted in the British lines later known as “Needhams Gap” after the General whose late arrival allowed the bulk the rebels to reach safety.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Vinegar_Hill (753 words)

	The 1804 Australian Rebellion and Battle of Vinegar Hill by Cameron Riley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This was the rebellion of 1804 that led to the "Battle of Vinegar Hill" in Sydney's north western suburbs.
		The battle between the rebels and the soldiers became commonly known as the "Battle of Vinegar Hill" after the Irish battle in 1798.
		In February of 1803 thirteen convicts escaped from a farm at Castle Hill and raided the farm of Verincourt de Flambe for liqour, silverware and firearms.
	www.hawkesburyhistory.org.au /articles/Battle_of_Vinegar.html (7834 words)

	History of Vinegar Hill
		Vinegar Hill was largely demolished in the mid-1960's as a part of Charlottesville's "urban renewal" campaign.
		Vinegar Hill did not burn down nor did all the "bad folks" disappear when that sordid but colorful jumble of buildings was razed.
		It would be impossible to resurrect Vinegar Hill in its earlier form, and few would be interested in the problems of drainage and the absence of sewer hookups and running water that many of the properties had to endure.
	www.iath.virginia.edu /schwartz/vhill/vhill.history.html (1760 words)

	Hawkesbury City Council: Community: Battle of Vinegar Hill Commemoration
		The Castle Hill Rebellion and the subsequent Battle of Vinegar Hill were the first European style armed rebellion in Australian history.
		The story of the Castle Hill Rebellion and the Battle of Vinegar Hill was suppressed in the early 1800s so as not to encourage other daring challenges to British rule.
		The original battle on 21 June 1798 at Enniscorthy was a victory for the British and many Irishmen were killed or executed and many more were transported to the new colony of Australia.
	www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au /community/1013/1044.html (1082 words)

	Castle Hill, New South Wales - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1804, the convicts rebelled in the Castle Hill Rebellion (also known as the 'Battle of Vinegar Hill'), overpowering their guards and marching on towards Parramatta.
		In the past Castle Hill was serviced by a rail line to Parramatta, to take the rural area's produce to the city.
		Castle Hill and its surrounding areas are sometimes dubbed the "Bible Belt" of Sydney, owing to the considerable influence of evangelical Christianity in the region.
	www.recipeland.com /encyclopaedia/index.php/Castle_Hill,_New_South_Wales (753 words)

	The Whitlam Institute: The Whitlam Collection: Memorial to Battle of Vinegar Hill
		This is the sixth commemoration by Blacktown City Council of the Battle of Vinegar Hill of 11.30am Monday 5 March 1804.
		Vinegar Hill was the only battle between whites other than Eureka, although there were bigger battles between whites and Aborigines up till the 1930’s.
		It is called after hill of that name overlooking town of Enniscorthy, co.Wexford, where General Lake massacred United Irishmen who had rebelled against his proclamation requiring everyone except police and soldiers to give up their guns.
	www.whitlam.org /collection/1988/19880305Vinegar_Hill (422 words)

	BBC - History - The 1798 Irish Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On 21st June, General Gerard Lake attempted to surround Vinegar Hill with some 20,000 men, in four columns of soldiers, in order to prevent a rebel breakout.
		Although a 'little war' continued in the Wicklow mountains for some time afterwards, in effect, after Vinegar Hill, the rebellion in the south-east was over.
		The army repaid these atrocities with interest: the mopping-up operations after Vinegar Hill resembled, to the fury of the newly-appointed Lord Lieutenant, Marquis Cornwallis, little other than universal rape, plunder and murder.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/state/nations/irish_reb_06.shtml (559 words)

	The Guardian
		Tom O'Gliasain On Sunday February 29 the Friends of Vinegar Hill held a ceremony to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Castle Hill Rebellion in NSW and the subsequent Battle of Vinegar Hill.
		On the monument to Vinegar Hill, an Aboriginal and an Irish- Australian child then unveiled a plaque bearing the names of the men who were executed as leaders of the uprising.
		She paid tribute to the Friends of Vinegar Hill and recounted how when she arrived and began sifting through the correspondence the first letter she found was from Tom O'Gliasain and the Friends of Vinegar Hill.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve04/1174vinegar.html (713 words)

	Vinegar Hill Memorial and 1798 Irish Memorial, NSW, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Whilst they rioted and robbed the farms of local settlers, Governor King officially proclaimed the districts of Parramatta, Castle Hill, Toongabee, Prospect, Seven Hills, Baulkham Hills, the Hawkesbury and the Nepean to be in a State of Rebellion and Martial Law was declared throughout these districts.
		To commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Vinegar Hill, the combined Councils of Baulkham Hills, Blacktown, Hawkesbury, Holroyd, Liverpool and Parramatta organised a number of events to recognise the contribution that those involved in the Battle of Vinegar Hill made to justice, freedom and the right to self determination in Australia.
		The naming of the Vinegar Hill Historical Site, which covers seven square kilometres of land bounded by Guntawong, Withers, Mungerie, Merriville and Cudgegong Roads, formally recognises the 'historical significance' of this location and came about after a proposal was submitted to the Geographical Names Board by both Baulkham Hills and Blacktown Shire Councils.
	members.optushome.com.au /dianep/vinegarhill.htm (818 words)

	Vinegar hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The insurgents were defeated in the Battle of Vinegar Hill, June 21, 1798, by British forces under General Lake.
		This may also be considered an allusion to R. Joyce's "The Boys of Wexford," which mentions Vinegar Hill; see entry 129.13.
		Vinegar hill At Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the headquarters of the Wexford rebels in the Rebellion of 1798 and the site of their defeat at the hands of the English on 21 June 1798.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /rickard/Hypermedia/HTML/Vinegar_hill.html (155 words)

	Independent, The (London): French blamed for Battle of Vinegar Hill
		While the rebellion was swiftly quashed in what is known as the Battle of Vinegar Hill, it shook the fledgling British colony to its foundations for a night and a day.
		The battle, named after an insurrection in County Wexford six years earlier, was one of the bloodiest events in Australian history.
		Among the residents of Parramatta was the Rev Samuel Marsden, a minister and magistrate known as the "flogging parson".
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200403/ai_n12773009 (939 words)

	Vinegar Hill
		Vinegar Hill is about a four or five block square neighborhood in Brooklyn located just east of the Manhattan Bridge anchorage.
		Vinegar Hill is all that is left of a rather more extensive brownstoned area.
		In Ireland, the name "Vinegar Hill" was an English transliteration of a Gaelic (Irish) term meaning "hill of the wood of the berries".
	www.forgotten-ny.com /STREET%20SCENES/Vinegar%20Hill%20Page/vinegar.html (326 words)

	Castle Hill Rebellion
		The Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804, an attempt by pre-dominantly Irish Catholic convicts to escape from servitude, was quashed with devastating results for the Catholics of New South Wales, both convict and free.
		The Castle Hill convicts’ revolt, fuelled by news received in January 1803 of the commencement of Robert Emmet’s rebellion in Ireland backed by French Revolution forces (but not of its failure), was a local enactment of the age-old struggle by the oppressed Irish against the British occupiers of their country.
		The declared objective of the leaders of the Castle Hill rebellion was to overthrow the military government in the colony and to either commandeer or be welcomed aboard ships then in Port Jackson and escape to Ireland to rejoin the struggle against the British.
	www.catholicweekly.com.au /04/mar/7/22.html (967 words)

	Signs of the Times - Vinegar Hill
		Vinegar Hill was a triangle of orange mud, angering those who had moved out in such a hurry."
		"Vinegar Hill first was settled by Irish immigrants, fresh from the perils of the 1847 Potato Famine in which the small island nation lost half its population to either death or emigration.
		"Vinegar Hill connected the University to downtown Charlottesville and so visitors to the University or to the city would inevitably pass through the neighborhood.
	www.loper.org /~george/trends/2000/Apr/61.html (1484 words)

	Battle of Vinegar Hill 200th Anniversary - 26/02/2004 - ADJ
		A number of the convict rebels who took part in the Castle Hill uprising were transported to Australia for being involved in the Vinegar Hill rebellion in Ireland in 1798 against the British oppression of the day.
		On each occasion referred to as the Battle of Vinegar Hill, the mainly Irish rebels were the more numerous, though less well armed and ultimately unsuccessful.
		The convict leaders were captured before the major battle, where the Governor's men and their civilian supporters overcame the disorganised rebels.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/HansArt.nsf/5f584b237987507aca256d09008051f3/394e18605cdcc20eca256e50002fc1b6!OpenDocument (789 words)

	Irish Rebellion of 1798 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heavy rebel defeats at Carlow, and hill of Tara, Co Meath effectively ended the rebellion in those counties but news of the rising spread panic and fear among loyalists in Wicklow who responding by massacring rebel suspects held in custody at Dunlavin Green, and in Carnew.
		In Down, after initial success at Saintfield, the rebels led by Henry Munro were defeated in the longest battle of the rebellion at Ballinahinch.
		The rebels in turn were guilty of massacres in Rathangan, Co. Kildare but the worst took place in Co. Wexford, at the Vinegar Hill camp, Scullabogue, Wexford bridge and in the Gorey vicinity.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1798_rebellion (2332 words)

	Sydney Hills - Accommodation, Conferences, Dining & More from The Hills to The Hawkesbury
		The convicts rebelled from the Castle Hill Government Farm on 4 March and made a stand for freedom at the Battle of Vinegar Hill on 5 March.
		A Tram from Parramatta to Baulkham Hills commenced with an extension to Castle Hill in 1910.
		Bicentenary of the Castle Hill Rebellion and Battle of Vinegar Hill.
	sydneysnaturalbest.com /about_history.asp (696 words)

	Quadrant Magazine
		It seems to me that "Vinegar Hill" is a key meme in the Irish-Australian experience, at least in the sense that once communicated from Ireland to Australia over 200 years ago, it adapted to local conditions, not as successfully as the rabbit or the flberry, but strongly enough to survive down to the present day.
		Although the Irish rebels at Castle Hill and the Eureka Stockade, and later figures such as Ned Kelly, were in their time seen as outlaws and criminals not only causing civil disruption but threatening to tear the fabric of colonial society, nowadays they are generally viewed as being on the heroic side of the argument.
		The Vinegar Hill meme, in pristine condition, is lodged firmly in Keneally's mind as he, an Australian of several generations, moves through the land of his ancestors.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=1006 (5447 words)

	Castle Hill Rebellion and Battle of Vinegar Hill 200th Anniversary - 03/09/2003 - PRIV
		I draw to the attention of the House plans that are afoot to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Castle Hill rebellion and the battle of Vinegar Hill.
		There is an argument that has been circulated in Lynette Silver's latest book on the battle of Vinegar Hill—and this is apropos last week's Alcohol Summit—that while the convicts were waiting to swoop down on Parramatta they had a party and got thoroughly drunk and aborted their insurrection.
		Although the Constitution Hill battle was thwarted, the remnants of the brigade at Constitution Hill then adjourned to Vinegar Hill, which is closer to the present-day Castle Hill, and there fought the famous battle of Vinegar Hill, in which many people were killed.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20030903028 (935 words)

	The battle for our history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the Irish Battle of Vinegar Hill (from which the Australian conflict in 1804 was named) the rebels were decisively broken by British artillery.
		The Australian Battle of Vinegar Hill proved to be a tragic repeat of the events in 1798 in Ireland-defeat on the field was followed by executions and repression for the survivors.
		But as the story of Vinegar Hill shows, our history is a rich and beautiful thing, which illustrates again and again how ordinary people have the capacity to stand up and attempt to shape the world they live in.
	www.iso.org.au /socialistworker/529/p9b.html (673 words)

	The battle of Vinegar Hill - National - www.smh.com.au
		While she, her husband and their terrified guest joined other residents preparing to escape by river boat to Sydney, the beat of drums and gunfire punctuated the humid night air, as soldiers were called to arms and able-bodied men were summoned to the defence of the town.
		He declared Castle Hill, Seven Hills, Baulkham Hills, the Hawkesbury and the Nepean under martial law and imposed a curfew, warning the populace that "any person seen after sunset will be fired upon by patrolling military".
		Next month, as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Vinegar Hill, a plaque will be unveiled on the site, which is now occupied by a motel.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/27/1077676969741.html (1522 words)

	Baulkham Hills Shire Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The story of the Castle Hill Rebellion and the Battle of Vinegar Hill is a story of failed mini-rebellions, unsuccessful escape attempts, mutiny, conspiracies, betrayal and personal tragedy.
		The battle left 15 convicts dead with most of the leaders of the uprising being later executed as a mark of infamy.
		Education in Baulkham Hills was first provided at the Roman Catholic St. Michael's Denominational School from 1862 until 1867 when the school was temporarily closed due to the lack of a teacher.
	www.baulkhamhills.nsw.gov.au /shire_information/history.aspx (1206 words)

	Vinegar Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At 8:00 on the night of 4 March 1804, the Castle Hill convicts overpowered their guards, took their weapons, and then set fire to the house as a signal to other convicts in the area.
		The final battle of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 had been at Vinegar Hill in Ireland.
		The same name was given to the hill where at about 11:am on the fifth of March.
	www.truscottst-p.schools.nsw.edu.au /rhys/VinegarHill.htm (343 words)

	Castle Hill Heritage Park, NSW, Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Irish inspired Castle Hill Rebellion of March 4th, 1804, and the subsequent battle with troopers, forever changed the fledgling colony's way of life and confirmed the site as one of the nation's most significant heritage treasures.
		He was a veteran of the 1798 battle in Ireland where he continued to co-ordinate district insurgency in 1799.
		The infant town then only consisted of a dozen houses; but already there were to be distinguished on the neighbouring hills vast tracts of cultivated land, while several handsome farms were settled in the valleys.
	members.optushome.com.au /dianep/heritagepark.htm (2890 words)

	Rewind (ABC TV): Vinegar Hill
		That's because Vinegar Hill was the site of another uprising 50 years earlier - a rebellion which the authorities tried to wipe from history.
		MICHELLE ARROW: The battle of Vinegar Hill brought two tough men face to face - Major George Johnston of the NSW Corps, the man who later led a famous mutiny called the Rum Rebellion, and a hardened Irish rebel, Phillip Cunningham.
		We were walking down the hill with the parade of descendants, we said to each other, "This is where they walked." It wasn't just a re-enactment.
	www.abc.net.au /tv/rewind/txt/s1209455.htm (2206 words)

	Evil pundit of doom!: Two hundred years later (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Today is the bicentenary of the first armed rebellion in colonial Australia, the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
		Cunningham was a veteran of the Irish Batlle of Vinegar Hill, and he also was a mutineer on the convict ship that brought him to Australia.
		The Castle Hill Rebellion and the Battle of Vinegar Hill are two of the most supressed events in the NSW and Australian histories.
	evilpundit.com /archives/005657.html (383 words)

	Rouse Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 3rd and 4th generations sold off the income-generating estates in order to maintain their extravagent lifestyles and by the 1890's only the Rouse Hill estate was left (which was originally intended as the family home and not as a working farm).
		In addition to it's connection with the family, the estate is also famous (or infamous) as being the site of the Battle of Vinegar Hill which occured 5th March, 1804, although the exact location of the battle is uncertain and there are some conflicting claims.
		The Battle of Vinegar Hill was named after the earlier battle in Wexford, Ireland, 1798.
	www.triode.net.au /~dragon/history/rivo/rouse_hill.html (824 words)

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