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Post by Sir John on May 13, 2013 18:57:00 GMT -5
"157,000 convicts were sent to Australia Between 1788 and 1856. How many were sent to the USA?"
Stolen from an Australian blog.
Stay away from Google, you do not need it.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 19:34:01 GMT -5
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Post by Sir John on May 13, 2013 19:34:32 GMT -5
CHEAT!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 19:36:07 GMT -5
I Googled my brain cells
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Post by Sir John on May 13, 2013 19:36:53 GMT -5
You have been reading Pickering!!!
(I am 'ozjohn39' there)
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 19:37:26 GMT -5
Nope, but I now will
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 19:41:06 GMT -5
I read Pickering earlier but did not see a reference, and looked again and found none, which article?
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Post by Sir John on May 13, 2013 19:58:19 GMT -5
Further research indicates that most of the convicts transported to Nth America ended up in Tennessee!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 21:53:13 GMT -5
Transportation or penal transportation is the sending of convicted criminals to a penal colony. For example, France transported convicts to Devil's Island and New Caledonia, and Great Britain to its colonies in the Americas (from the 1610s until the American Revolution in the 1770s) and Australia (1788–1868).
I was wrong SJ
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Post by Sir John on May 14, 2013 17:29:32 GMT -5
About 52,000 to British North America!
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2013 1:03:56 GMT -5
I knew there was a common thread with Canada SJ, they got shafted too
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Post by Sir John on May 15, 2013 1:10:21 GMT -5
Prem,
I read a book many years ago about the Port Arthur convict settlement in Tasmania.
Much info on day to day life etc and one section studied diet. They found that the calorie intake at Port Arthur was greater than the average resident of London in the 1850s.
No idea on Nth America.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2013 14:11:26 GMT -5
Probably the most famous Australian other than General MacArthur was Ned Kelly , Ned was poor boy who loved people , Ned had a few personalty flaws that some Australians found objectionable and decided the best thing for Ned was to hang him .
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Post by Sir John on May 15, 2013 14:18:56 GMT -5
Good idea! He was a (3) cop killing thief!
His last words - "such is life"
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2013 14:22:36 GMT -5
Ned was just a mis-understood lad who if he were alive today would be treated with kindness .
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