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tasmania: leave it to george the pied piper
The final solution down under in Tasmania…. George Augustus Robinson. The type who would run a reformatory for reclaimed London hookers out of Dickens’ Hard Times. He was tireless, humorless and untiring. Also uneducated, dogmatic and his bent was to … Continue reading
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tasmania: soldiers that can’t shoot straight
The final solution down under in Tasmania…. …Sometimes they did see an aborigine- once they briefly glimpsed a party of forty. More often they mistook clumps of trees, or black swans, or the rustle of leaves, or kangaroos, for the … Continue reading
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tasmania: best laid plans…
The final solution down under in Tasmania…. …It was perhaps the most farcical campaign in the history of British imperial arms. The plan called for a steady advance on a front that would begin by being 120 miles long, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonel George Arthur Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, James Bonwick Tasmania, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, John Webber sketches Tasmania, Lyndall Ryan Tasmania, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Robert Dowling Tasmania, Sir George Murray Secretary of State for the Colonies, Tasmanian genocide, Thomas Bock paintings Tasmania
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tasmania: end of the locals
The final solution down under in Tasmania… …Macquarie House bustled with activity. Colonel George Arthur, the governor, himself assumed command of the operation and planned the cordon- “the Black Line”- on the most orthodox military principles. He had fought in … Continue reading
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Tagged Colonel George Arthur Tasmania, George Augustus Robinson, Henry Mundy paintings Tasmania, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Robert Dowling Tasmania, Sir George Murray Secretary of State for the Colonies, Tasmania Aborigines Black Line, tasmania aborigines genocide, Tasmania history, Thomas Bock paintings Tasmania
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tasmania: first they had to be found
The final solution down under in Tasmania… …authority could not of course, sanction the extermination of the natives. Humanitarianism was a powerful motive of Empire, and public opinion in England would never stomach genocide. Sir George Murray, the Secretary of … Continue reading
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Tagged George Augustus Robinson, Henry Mundy paintings Tasmania, James Bonwick author, Jennifer Isaacs Tasmania, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Philip Noyce Tasmania, Robert Dowling Tasmania, Sir George Murray Secretary of State for the Colonies, Tasmania Aborigine genocide, Tasmania Aborigine history, Tasmania history, Thomas Bock paintings Tasmania
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