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True Stories of the Penal Days
1897-1898
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1898
The Oath of the Forty
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Strongly historically based. The cruelty and torturous treatment of convicts detailed. A mutiny among a lime-pit convict gang is cruelly put down by the new commandant Price who is a tyrant. The convict rebellion led by James Westbrook failed and the leaders sentenced to death by hanging. Westbrook escaped with the help of a soldier and evades arrest, making several attempts to kill Price. A rebellion including some of the soldiers is mooted but Westbrook and his helpers are captured in a small boat battle at sea and later hanged. (PB)
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Subjects:
- 1847
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- Norfolk Island, Australian External Territories,
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