The Convict Settlement of Australia
Roderick Cameron explains how, during the 50 years that followed Governor Phillip’s landing at Botany Bay in 1788, convicts and free settlers turned New South Wales into a flourishing colony.
When, in 1776, America declared her independence, England lost Virginia as a convict settlement.
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