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
A British marine officer c. 1780
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.