Category: Battle of Vinegar Hill, Australia

Categories: Australia, History | Port Jackson Penal Colony | Rouse Hill, New South Wales

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The Convict Rebellion of 1804 was a rebellion by some Irish convicts against colonial authority in the Castle Hill district of the British Colony of New South Wales. The rebellion culminated in a battle fought between convicts and the New South Wales Corps on 4th March 1804 at Rouse Hill, dubbed the Battle of Vinegar Hill, named for the Battle of Vinegar Hill of 1798 in Ireland. It was the first and only major convict uprising in Australian history. Putting down the rebellion was swift, with the armed conflict followed by martial law being imposed if parts of the colony and very heavy penalties being dealt to the ringleaders. It was the only occasion on which the New South Wales Corps 'fought' what could be classified a military action in its twenty-year garrison duty.

Wikipedia:Castle Hill convict rebellion

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