On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia. After overcoming a period of hardship, the fledgling colony began to celebrate the anniversary of this date with great fanfare.
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Australia, once known as New South Wales, was originally planned as a penal colony. In October 1786, the British government appointed Arthur Phillip captain of the HMS Sirius, and commissioned him to establish an agricultural work camp there for British convicts. With little idea of what he could expect from the mysterious and distant land, Phillip had great difficulty assembling the fleet that was to make the journey. His requests for more experienced farmers to assist the penal colony were repeatedly denied, and he was both poorly funded and outfitted. Nonetheless, accompanied by a small contingent of Marines and other officers, Phillip led his 1,000-strong party, of whom more than 700 were convicts, around Africa to the eastern side of Australia. In all, the voyage lasted eight months, claiming the deaths of some 30 men.
The first years of settlement were nearly disastrous. Cursed with poor soil, an unfamiliar climate and workers who were ignorant of farming, Phillip had great difficulty keeping the men alive. The colony was on the verge of outright starvation for several years, and the marines sent to keep order were not up to the task. Phillip, who proved to be a tough but fair-minded leader, persevered by appointing convicts to positions of responsibility and oversight. Floggings and hangings were commonplace, but so was egalitarianism. As Phillip said before leaving England: “In a new country there will be no slavery and hence no slaves.”
Though Phillip returned to England in 1792, the colony became prosperous by the turn of the 19th century. Feeling a new sense of patriotism, the men began to rally around January 26 as their founding day. Historian Manning Clarke noted that in 1808 the men observed the “anniversary of the foundation of the colony” with “drinking and merriment.”
Finally, in 1818, January 26 became an official holiday, marking the 30th anniversary of British settlement in Australia. And, as Australia became a sovereign nation, it became the national holiday known as Australia Day. Today, Australia Day serves both as a day of celebration for the founding of the white British settlement, and as a day of mourning for the Aborigines who were slowly dispossessed of their land as white colonization spread across the continent.
Send a bunch of white convicts to a place where damn near everything can kill you, you get Australia.
Bunch of black former slaves take over the richest white colony ever, you get Haiti.
Égalité!
” In October 1786, the British government appointed Arthur Phillip captain of the HMS Sirius, and commissioned him to establish an agricultural work camp there for convicts.”
The program officially ended in 2017 when Australia accepted its final convict, an American Indian informally known as Chief Loopy.
Before sending criminals to Australia, where did the Brits send their convicts?
AMERICA!!
See book —- “Bound with an Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America”
Book link —>.
Article —- “Britain sent thousands of its convicts to America”
article link —– https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/britain-sent-thousands-of-its-convicts-to-america-not-1707458418
And they all settled in New Jersey.
Then there’s this.
When did ladies come?????
Just before having a cigarette.
How does a Blond turn on the light after sex? She opens the car door.
A guy needs a coat of paint on the exterior wrap around porch of his home.
To save costs, and give a college kid a chance to earn some cash, he posts a flyer for the job in the local university cafeteria.
A day later, a young blonde tart knocks, and asks to do the work.
“Have you painted anything before?”
Ditz says, “Oh, yeah. We just repainted our dorm room. Came out real nice.”
Distracted by her figure, the home owner thinks, ‘why not?’
He says to her, “There’s 2 gallons of paint, brushes, rollers,& rags out back. I’d like you to paint my porch. Give it 2 coats. When you’re done, I’ll pay you $500 bucks cash.”
She smiles and says ‘Right away”
An hour later, a knock on the door.
“Whataya need, sweetie?”
She says: “I’m all done and would like to be paid”
He looks down, & the only paint he sees is splatters on her.
He asks “Where exactly did you paint?
“Out back” She says. “But you’re mistaken. You don’t have a Porsche. You have a Mercedes, silly.”
I read that Sherwin Williams has introduced a new color paint called, ‘blond’
It’s not too bright, but it spreads real easy…