The Rum Rebellion
1807 - 1809
David Bellamy is afraid. He fears the strange new land of New South Wales, its inhabitants and its wild creatures. He fears his relatives who have taken him in, and the Governor Bligh himself: the swearing, cursing Governor Bligh.
And then on Anniversary Day, 26th January, 1808, David and his new friends Kitty and Ralph are on the streets of Sydney Town when the military march on Government House. The soldiers arrest Governor Bligh and his daughter Lady Putland. Major Johnston took over the administration over the colony along with John MacArthur and the Blaxland Brothers. Once news reached London, Governor Lachlan Macquarie was appointed and arrived in Sydney on the 28 of December 1809. In 1811 Johnston and MacArthur were tried and convicted.
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