A power point by Stephanie 6L Facts In 1854 the public world in southern Australia a force of soldiers drawn from the 12th and 40th Regiments of Foot accompanied by some policemen attacked and defeated about 150 gold diggers who had taken up weapons against the Government in the new colony of ID: 412343
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Eureka Stockade
A power point by Stephanie 6LSlide2
FactsIn 1854, the public world in southern Australia, a force of soldiers drawn from the 12th and 40th Regiments of Foot accompanied by some policemen, attacked and defeated about 150 gold diggers who had taken up weapons against the Government in the new colony of Victoria. The fight lasted 15 minutes, thirty men lost their lives, six of them were soldiers and the rest were diggers from Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, Prussia, Württemberg and many more places. Slide3
FactsThe argument was over the cost of gold digging licences and the violent and corruptible armed police and officials who enforced them. Unusually, the fighting was sparked by the dirty killing of a drunken digger by a former convict pub owner.Slide4
FactsThe fight at Eureka was not the first time that gangs of hundreds or even thousand of gold diggers had challenged the soldiers sent out by the Colonial Office in London. Shots had sometimes been fired. It had happened in the colony of New South Wales in the gold rush of 1851 and twice in 1853. Sometimes the diggers’ intimidation had paid off and the Government had backed down. Slide5
FactsNone of these wars interrupted the rough life in the goldfields for long let alone encouraged any lasting anti–colonialism. Indeed, the very morning after the fight at Eureka a British Army major general was able to ride quietly among diggers and report no ugly behaviour against the Government. The incident at the ‘Eureka Stockade’ faded into nothing. But years later its memory was gradually characterised as a stand by Australians for independent rights and freedom which is now a national myth.Slide6
James Scobie
In October 1854 James Scobie, a Scottish digger went to get a drink late at Bentley's Hotel in Ballarat. He died
after being hit on the head with a spade. Bentley was
suspected
, but he was
released on bail by
local magistrates. After
the next protest
meeting, some of the crowd rushed
to the
hotel, and it burned down. Three men were picked from the crowd and charged with the burning of the hotel. Slide7
James Scobie
On 16 November, Governor Hotham set up a job into the goldfields. A diggers’ group on the 27th
of
November
demanded
the release of the three prisoners. Hotham
said no to the
word, and refused. The
group
would not
back down. At
a meeting
on the 29
th
of
November, the S
outhern
Cross flag was
put up and
licences
burned. The
next day, Peter Lalor led the
miners
to Eureka where they built their stockade. Ballarat was
in
a state of
rebellion.Slide8
James ScobieAt 4 a.m. on Sunday, 3 December, when most of those inside the stockade were asleep, government troops
attacked, about 30 diggers were killed by the soldiers, who lost 6 dead and 12 seriously wounded. In early 1855, the Eureka
miners were
put on trial in Melbourne. Because of this attack a royal commission
stopped
the licence system and gave miners a
right to vote.Slide9
Peter Lalor
Peter Lalor was an Irish miner who led the battle of
Eureka Stockade. In his early days he was
quite disinterested
in politics, but the
Eureka battle sparked
a passion for
equility
that began his political career.