Rebellion Spiced Rum, 70 cl

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He abolished the civilian courts and transferred the magistrates to the authority of Captain Joseph Foveaux. Thankfully as we’d already started to get things running we were able to continue with our launch and the response has been incredible. In fact, he had been selected for the post of Governor of New South Wales, largely because of his reputation for firm discipline, to curb the power and corrupt practices of the News South Wales Corps and some private individuals in the colony. An alarm at around 11pm raised Major Johnston from his sleep; he then led 29 soldiers of the New South Wales Corps on a forced march from their barracks at Annandale to Parramatta.

On arrival in New South Wales, Johnston served as adjutant to Governor Arthur Phillip, and was promoted in 1789 to the rank of Captain-Lieutenant of Marines. Major-General Lachlan Macquarie was put in charge of the mission after Major-General Miles Nightingall fell ill before departure.However, Bligh sailed to Hobart in Van Diemen's Land, seeking the support of Lieutenant-Governor David Collins to retake control of the New South Wales Colony. This earned Bligh the gratitude of the farmers, but the enmity of traders in the Corps who had been profiting greatly from the situation. Percy obtained a commission for the 12-year-old Johnston as second lieutenant of marines on 6 March 1776. Many of the men in the New South Wales Corps were recruited from the unemployed in Britain though many were skilled, victims of the Industrial Revolution. Johnston replied that he was ill, [6] as he had wrecked his gig on the evening of 24 January on his way back home to Annandale after dining with officers of the Corps.

Officers were also rewarded by early governors with large land grants and were assigned convict labour, which allowed them to build comfortable homes and cultivate farm produce, which they could sell at a profit. I am 76 years of age and i have been drinking rum since i first started school my dad was an ex navy man and he put a drop of rum in my tea in a morning.Johnston claimed he was being unfairly persecuted and demanded that he be sent to England for trial. After serving as a young marine officer in the American Revolutionary War, Johnston served in the East Indies, fighting against the French, before volunteering to accompany the First Fleet to New South Wales. In the Colony of New South Wales, the New South Wales Corps gained notoriety for its trade in rum and mutinous behaviour.

On 31 December 1807 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, wrote back to Bligh with instructions to stop the barter of spirits. In his defence Colonel Johnston produced a document signed by many individuals in Sydney which he claimed as evidence of the widespread alarm and chaos rampant during Bligh’s administration, and the justification for his extraordinary actions. Striking a balance between national unity and cultural diversity that appropriately recognises and respects Indigenous, colonial and migrant heritage but also looks to the future, remains a challenge, but one we should look toward with confidence. Shortly after the coup, a watercolour illustrating Bligh's arrest by an unknown artist was exhibited in Sydney at perhaps Australia's first public art exhibition. Supposedly, Blackbeard marooned a mutinous crew on ‘Dead Man’s Chest’, an island speculated to be part of the British Virgin Islands.On the evening of January 26, 1808, the men of the New South Wales Corps marched from the parade ground on High Street (now George) up Bridge Street to Government House. Each crew member was given was a cutlass and a bottle of rum, and it was presumed they would eventually kill each other. The military stayed in power for two years until Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth Governor of NSW, assumed office at the beginning of 1810. He was arrested and deposed and the Corps' commanding officer George Johnston took control of the Colony. Also sign me up for newsletters so I can get special offers, recommendations, and expert advice to my inbox!

This being the anniversary of Her Majesty’s birthday, Lieutenant-Colonel Paterson will direct the quartermaster to draw a proportion of fresh beef from Government House, to furnish a pound to each non-commissioned officer and private of the guard on duty at headquarters. Dando-Collins, Stephen, Captain Bligh's Other Mutiny: The True Story of the Military Coup that Turned Australia into a Two-Year Rebel Republic, Sydney, Random House, 2007. The factors leading up to Bligh’s arrest had much less to do with the rum trade and much more to do with a battle for power between the military and civil elites of the colony and the Governor.During the first half of the 19th century, it was widely referred to in Australia as the Great Rebellion.