Captain Arthur Phillip RN was commander of the First Fleet of 11 ships that sailed into Botany Bay ... Image credit: courtesy National Library of Australia Phillip tried to both reform and discipline ...

Many convicts undertook political action in the Australian colonies during their ... to attack colonial government sites, commandeer a ship and return to Ireland to continue the fight there.

A little later, the British ship 'Gannet' sailing in Crete ... They were sent with other convicts to Australia and they arrived in Sydney on 27 August 1829. The Greek sailors who were illiterate ...