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“This is far and away the most accurate and authoritative account of the actual battle of Eureka. An outstanding job of sorting fact from myth.” Peter FitzSimons. Eureka Stockade: A ferocious and bloody battle, is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. On the chilly dawn morning of 3 December 1854 British soldiers and police of the Victorian colonial government attacked and stormed a crudely-built fortification erected by insurgent gold miners at the Eureka lead on the Ballarat Gold Diggings. The fighting was intense, the carnage appalling and the political consequences of the affair profound. This book, for the first time, examines in great detail the actual military events that unfolded during the twenty minutes of deadly fighting at Eureka. Many of the old assumptions about what occurred that day are turned on the heads, raising in their places provocative questions. Were the intentions of the Eureka diggers as pacific as tradition insists? How was it that men supposedly poorly armed and taken completely by surprise in their sleep were able to deliver ‘sharp and well directed’ fire on their attackers? How close, in fact di

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Author

Gregory Blake

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781480213302

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Australian & Oceanian History, Humanities