John Macarthur was a British Army officer, landowner, and politician, best remembered as a key organiser of the 1808 Rum Rebellion and a pioneer of the Australian Merino wool industry. Born in England
The Neptune of the Second Fleet
Painting of Elizabeth Farm by Joseph Lycett (c.1825)
An Australian stamp commemorating Macarthur and the wool industry
New South Wales Corps
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The New South Wales Corps, later known as the 102d Regiment of Foot, and lastly as the 100th Regiment of Foot, was a formation of the British Army organised in 1789 in England to relieve the New South
Major Francis Grose, who commanded the corps in its early years
Contemporary illustration of the rebellion
A propaganda cartoon of Bligh's arrest in Sydney in 1808, portraying him as a coward.