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	New South Wales Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New South Wales Corps (aka The Rum Corps) was formed in England in 1789 as permanent regiment to relieve the marines who had accompanied the First Fleet.
		2 Rum Corps and Rum Trafficking in NSW
		This led to the Rum Rebellion and the eventual recall of the NSW Corps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_South_Wales_Corps (1713 words)

	New South Wales - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		New South Wales is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the E., by Queensland on the N., by South Australia on the W. and by Victoria on the S. It lies between 28° and 38° S. lat., and 141° and 154° E. long.
		In the extreme south-east of New South Wales, at the head of the Genoa river, are sandstones with Archaeopteris howitti, which are an extension of the Lower Devonian beds of Victoria; while farther to the east, at Eden and Twofold Bay, are Upper Devonian sandstones.
		In 1851, when separate autonomy was granted to Victoria, New South Wales had a population of 187,243, the annual imports were £2,078,338, the exports £ 2,399,5 80, the revenue was £575,794, and the colony contained 1 3 2,437 horses, 1,738,965 cattle and 13,059,324 sheep.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /New_South_Wales (8635 words)

	The New South Wales (NSW) Corps aka "The Rum Corps"
		The New South Wales (NSW) Corps aka "The Rum Corps"
		The New South Wales (NSW) Corps aka "The Rum Corps" 1790-1810
		On 26 January 1808, the twentieth anniversary of the proclamation of the settlement, the New South Wales Corps marched, at Macarthur's instigation, to depose Governor Bligh.
	www.militarybadges.info /brits/eras/02-nsw-corps.htm (2073 words)

	Early Australian Currency
		New South Wales, as the eastern shore of the island continent was named by Captain Cook, would become a prison colony to which the unwanted criminal elements of Great Britain could be transported with no hope of escape.
		Members of the New South Wales Corps had the ability to raise capital by borrowing against their regimental pay, which was accumulating back home in England.
		The commandant of the New South Wales Corps, Major George Johnston, released Macarthur from jail on a warrant which he signed illegally as 'lieutenant-governor' and with that, the Rum Corps took over the running of the colony for the next two years.
	www.australianstamp.com /Coin-web/aust/earlyaus.htm (6248 words)

	NEW SOUTH WALES - Online Information article about NEW SOUTH WALES
		Murray, which empties itself into the Southern Ocean through the state of South Australia, and during 1250 M. of its course forms the boundary between the states of New South Wales and Victoria.
		Blue Mountains and the Southern Highlands of New South Wales from the New England tableland to the north.
		Capital.—In Ig08 the Seat of Government Act provided that the federal territory and capital of Australia should be in the Yass-Canberra district of New South Wales, and that the territory should have an area of not less than 900 sq.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NAN_NEW/NEW_SOUTH_WALES.html (5935 words)

	Potted history of RNSWR
		This is the senior Battle Honour of the Australian Army and the battalions of the Royal New South Wales Regiment.
		The Battle Honour 'South Africa, 1899-1902' is carried by the Regiment for its colonial forebears.
		In July 1900 a small detachment, the New South Wales Marine Light Infantry, was recruited from local volunteers of the Third Contingent (awaiting movement to South Africa) to provide an infantry component for the New South Wales Naval Contingent which was being hurriedly formed for service in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-army-today/state-regts/history-rnswr.htm (1350 words)

	The Present Picture of New South Wales 1811
		According to this determination, Governor Phillip was sent to this new continent, where he arrived on the 20th of January, 1788, with eight hundred convicts, and a portion of marines, and laid the foundation of the new settlement, which continued gradually to improve under his government, until the close of the year 1792.
		The necessity for some new buildings of this description had been evident for some time, as the chief part of the King's storehouses, which had been previously erected, were unfortunately so remote from the water-side, as to occasion much superfluous labour, as well as to render the unloading of ships extremely burdensome and expensive.
		The religion most generally followed in the colony of New South Wales, is that established according to the usage of the Church of England; and it is a subject of satisfaction to observe that the churches are, generally speaking, well attended.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/15533/15533-h/15533-h.htm (13801 words)

	The 1804 Australian Rebellion and Battle of Vinegar Hill by Cameron Riley
		From from his experiences in Ireland and New South Wales he understood that secrecy and a non-traceable trail of communication were the most needed aspect of a successful rebellion.
		While the New South Wales Corps, Marsden and the Governor were targets of the rebellion they weren't the ultimate focus of the rebellion.
		South Africa deported many fls between 1828 and 1834 that were not political prisoners but had transgressed the racist South African laws.
	www.hawkesburyhistory.org.au /articles/Battle_of_Vinegar.html (7834 words)

	New Zeal: The White Settlement of New Zealand and Australia
		The New South Wales Corps were also obliged to perform other duties: in 1804 they were used to put down a rebellion by Irish convicts: the penal settlements were growing all the while.
		After 1813, new South Wales began filling up with Whites; right up until the 1880's, new settlements were established up and down the country, some as farming centers, some as mining towns after the discovery of gold and other minerals in the interior.
		New Zealand also developed as fast as any other European nation, again reflecting the overwhelmingly White nature of its population, rather than the age of the country itself or of its environment.
	www.white-history.com /hwr57.htm (4301 words)

	Comparative Criminology \| Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The New South Wales Corps was sent home by the next governor to be followed by more free settlers claiming farmland on which convicts could serve as laborers.
		Another colony to the north, Queensland, was settled by graziers and separated from New South Wales in 1859.
		This approach has since been changed in New South Wales and Victoria as a result of support for an approach known as "truth in sentencing." This change is said to have resulted in a significant increase in the number of inmates in prisons, particularly in New South Wales.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/australia.html (7798 words)

	New South Wales Corps - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		New South Wales Corps - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		New South Wales Corps, regiment of the British army that served in colonial Australia, where it monopolized trade and powerfully influenced the...
		In 1792 the Royal Marines were replaced with the New South Wales Corps, which had been specifically recruited in Britain.
	encarta.msn.com /New_South_Wales_Corps.html (148 words)

	British Settlement
		Given grants of land, members of the corps became the colony's best and largest farmers, but they also posed a serious threat to the governors by their power over the economy.
		The New South Wales Corps was sent home, and because the economy had improved, the government gained stability.
		New South Wales was granted the first constitutional charter by a British law, authorising the creation of a Legislative Council with limited power.
	members.tripod.com /virtaus4/volume8/history/british_settlement.htm (1028 words)

	A Short History of Australia - Part 2
		Convicts were conveyed from England to New South Wales in hired transports, the owners of which as well as the captains and officers entered into bonds for the safe custody of those placed on board.
		This company, which within six years invested in south Australia 320,000 pounds, established a bank, and engaged in a number of industries, was more influential in promoting the success of the young colony than the Government or the commissioners; and of course those who invested their money in it looked for a reward.
		As there was opposition in New South Wales to the separation of Queensland as being 'premature and inexpedient,' and as this opposition would certainly have been stronger had it been proposed to detach the Clarence and Richmond, the boundary decision was prudent.
	www.janesoceania.com /australia_history/index1.htm (9717 words)

	New South Wales Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When the "First Fleet" arrived in New South Wales on 26th January, 1788, the "cargo" of 178 Marines, comprising three companies under the command of Major Robert Ross.
		Due to this friction, and in part of the international situation at the time, an Order arrived from the Home Government to the effect that teh marines were required for service elsewhere and would be withdrawn as soon as their relief could be organised.
		I have the honour to acquaint you the King has been pleased to order that a Corps shall be forthwith raised under your command for HM's Service abroad, with the particualr view of being stationed in the settlement of New South Wales.
	www.chronofus.net /ww1/nswcorps.htm (402 words)

	Resources - 1810 to 1821 - Governor Lachlan Macquarie
		Although the New South Wales Corps and its monopoly were ended, the military influence continued, with the military officers still dominating the courts.
		Three new Courts of Civil Judicature were to be established in New South Wales: the Governor's Court, the Lieutenant-Governor's Court and the Supreme Court.
		Upon his arrival in the Colony of New South Wales at the end of 1810, Governor Macquarie discovered that the town hospital was an affair of tents and temporary buildings established in the notorious "Rocks" area when the First Fleet arrived in 1788.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/web/common.nsf/key/HistoryGovernorLachlanMacquarie (1054 words)

	Resources - The Governor of New South Wales
		Born, of Lebanese descent, in Narrandera in the Riverina district of New South Wales, and educated at Narrandera Public School and Sydney Girls High School, Marie Bashir gained her bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery in 1956 from the University of Sydney.
		The New South Wales Act was primarily to regulate the system of courts and the judiciary in New South Wales, but there were provisions in the Act for the establishment of a Legislative Council of between 5 and 7 men to advise the Governor.
		The Cabinet in New South Wales consists of all of the Ministers and is headed by the Premier, who is the chief adviser to the Governor on the exercise of the matters listed.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/web/common.nsf/key/ResourcesSystemTheGovernorofNewSouthWales (3222 words)

	The Rum-Puncheon Revolution - Old Tales of a Young Country - Marcus Clarke, Book, etext (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The New South Wales Veteran Corps (a regiment of pensioners tempted by promise of privilege to emigrate) was called the “Rum-Puncheon Corps.” Mr.
		He enlisted the sympathies of the New South Wales corps, and seems to have informed its officers (who were to try him) that he relied upon their favourable verdict.
		The Prussians of this Waterloo were represented by Major Johnstone, commanding the New South Wales corps; and immediately upon the receipt of the last manifesto of the six, Bligh had sent a despatch commanding his appearance.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/C/ClarkeMarcus/prose/OldTales/rumpuncheon.html (4769 words)

	The British Army in Australia 1788 to 1870
		The New South Wales Corps (now known as the Rum Corps) was raised under the command of Major Francis Grose.
		All the officers of the New South Wales Corps were returned to England in disgrace in 1810.
		During its service, the New South Wales Corps was criticised for the trading activities of some of its officers and their constant quarrels with a succession of naval governors, culminating in the deposing of the Governor, Captain William Bligh RN in 1808.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/other/british_army-in-aust.htm (2267 words)

	Belgenny Farm news
		On New Year’s Day, 1810, the 73rd was ferried ashore at Sydney to the government wharf and marched towards the old barracks in George Street, the main street.
		After standing for half an hour in the midsummer sun the two regiments were inspected by Macquarie, the officers of the New South Wales Corps and the ‘principal gentlemen of the colony’;.
		Macquarie requested that the regiment be transferred when he found the soldiers forming ‘matrimonial or less proper connexions [sic] with the Women of the Country’ which led them to ‘lose sight of their military duty and become…identified with the lower class of inhabitants’.
	www.agric.nsw.gov.au /belgenny/guv.htm (1478 words)

	Picturesque Atlas 1886 - NSW Governors & Wool - Part 1
		He saw the capabilities of the new country for grazing sheep and cattle, and having a few head of both, he determined to utilize the advantages which free grants of land, free labour, and the command of a market offered him in his new home.
		They were forced to clear their way through the thick scrub, to clamber up and down the rocky precipices, and to find their way across the gloomy chasms and the densely-timbered gorges, which make up the now famous scenery of the mountains.
		The settlers were not long in availing themselves of the fresh pastures for their sheep and cattle flocks and herds were sent to occupy the grassy lands watered by the western rivers, and the colony entered on a new and still more prosperous era.
	www.geocities.com /toby_meares2/004.htm (4367 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To this end, New South Wales officially graduated from being a penal settlement to a new British Colony in 1823, and convicts were used to colonize newly explored regions - Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland - as far away from Sydney's free settlers as possible.
		Strict new vice laws meant the end of the bad old days of drunken taverns and rowdy brothels.
		The new European migrant populations ("New Australian"), a substantial number of Italians, Greeks and Eastern Europeans among them, colonized the inner city, giving it a more cosmopolitan face.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/newsouthwales/syd_history.asp (2390 words)

	History of Australia
		The New South Wales Corps established a trading monopoly in the colony and was powerful enough to depose Governor William Bligh in the Rum Rebellion in 1808.
		In 1840, the transportation of convicts to central New South Wales ceased.
		The new nation was proclaimed on Jan. 1, 1901, at Centennial Park in Sydney.
	www.fortunecity.com /oasis/cozumel/332/history.htm (1173 words)

	The Surgeon John Harris
		He reached New south Wales in the "Surprize" in June 1790 and was posted to Parramatta.
		While in England Harris retired from the New South Wales Corps; he returned to Sydney in 1814 as a free settler.
		The property was named "Experimental Farm" by the first Governor of New South Wales, Captain Arthur Philip, who granted the land to a convict, James Ruse, to see if self sufficiency could be achieved by farming the land.
	www.technispec.com /jhl/jharris.htm (737 words)

	102nd Regiment of Foot [UK]
		New South Wales Corps (Rum Corps), by B and M Chapman.
		Evatt, Justice H.V. Rum Rebellion : a study of the overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps.
		"The New South Wales Corps and their Occupation of Massachusetts during the Anglo-American War of 1812", Sabretache, April/June 1988, p.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/inf/102-808.htm (239 words)

	The Irish Connection
		The New South Wales Corps was raised in London in 1789, especially for service in N.S.W. In 1793, the officers of the Corps were given complete commercial freedom by the acting Governor, Capt Grose, NSW Corps.
		The next reference to freemasonry which concerned the N.S.W Corps was a ceremony that Capt Anthony Fenn Kemp of the N.S.W. Corps underwent in a French "Lodge" "not regularly constituted but properly assembled" on board one of Baudin's ships during their stay in Sydney in 1802.
		The New South Wales Corps was replaced by the 73rd Regiment of Foot.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/6779/irish.html (8900 words)

	Category:History of New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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