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The First Fleet
The first fleet was a group of eleven ships that left Great Britain on the 13th of May 1787. The first fleet consisted of two royal navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports ships. These ships carried 1000 convicts, marines and seamen, and also a wide variety of stores. From England the eleven ships sailed southwest to Rio de Janeiro. Then they travelled east to Cape Town and then through the Sothern ocean to Botany Bay. The fleet arrived in mid-January 1788, they took approxima -
Crossing Of The Blue Mountains
The 1813 crossing of the Blue Mountains was an expedition led by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth. It was the first successful crossing by European settlers in New South Wales. By successfully crossing the Blue Mountains it enabled the settlers to use the land on the west of the mountains for farming. It also made the establishment of the first inland settlement possible, Bathurst. -
The gatling gun
The Gating Gun was one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons, it is a forerunner of the modern machine gun. The Gatling gun was invented by Richard Gatling. The gun is known for its use in the union forces in the American civil war in the 1860s. The American civil war was the first time the gun was employed in combat. After it was used in the Boshin war and then the Anglo-Zulu. it was importans so that the settelers could fight off the aboriginals because the aboriginals cuoldnt fight with. -
Gallipolt Battle
Gallipoli was a campaign in world war one that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula. The battle began on the 25th April 1915 and commenced on the 9th of January 1916. Northern bank is formed by the peninsula of Dardanelles, it is a strait thet provides a sea route which at the time was the Russian Empire. intending to secure it, Russia’s allies Brittani and France launched a naval attack then followed by an amphibious landing on the peninsula, aiming to capture the Ottoman capital of constantin -
The Gaza Battle
The battle of Gaza was the attempt of the (EES) to invade the south of Palestine in the Ottoman Empire during the sinai and Palestine campaign in the First World War. The fighting of the war took place in the city of Gaza on the Mediterranean coast. The (EES) didn’t overtake Palestine as the victors were the Ottomans. The war was a battle between The British Empire against the Ottoman Empire, German empire and also Austria and Hungry.
