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.
New South Wales Marine Corps
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The New South Wales Marine Corps was a battalion-sized unit of the British Marine Forces created to guard convicts aboard the First Fleet to Australia, and to preserve "subordination and regularity" i
New South Wales Corps
…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 Wales Marine Corps, which had accompanied the First Fleet to New South Wales. In Australia, the New South Wales Corps gained notoriety for its trade in rum and mutinous…
c. 1780 portrait of a British marine lieutenant
The First Fleet arriving at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788
Watkin Tench, a captain-lieutenant in the corps