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HMS bark Endeavour : Comments

By Everald Compton, published 27/9/2018

Sadly, we are now at a time in Australian history where an influential minority are demonising James Cook, accusing him of being the originator of every social and economic problem that Indigenous Australians have faced.

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Glebe Park in Canberra is next to the casino and is ideal for a monument such as a concrete pillar which can be sprayed by bullets to resemble small-pox.

USA. "there is no doubt that British military authorities approved of attempts to spread smallpox among the enemy", and "it was deliberate British policy to infect the Indians with smallpox". On 24 June 1763, William Trent, a local trader and commander of the Fort Pitt militia, wrote, "Out of our regard for them, we gave them two Blankets and an Handkerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect."

"According to a theory put forward in Journal of Australian Studies (JAS) by an independent researcher, in 1789, British marines used smallpox against indigenous tribes in New South Wales. Prior to the JAS article this theory was disputed by some academics , it is now known that the likely source was bottles of smallpox virus possessed by First Fleet surgeons and there actually was a report of smallpox amongst the colonists – a seaman, Jefferies."
Posted by nicknamenick, Thursday, 27 September 2018 1:13:03 PM
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Nicknamenick AKA Alan B
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 27 September 2018 1:38:57 PM
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A minor point. I think the traditional spelling is the Barque Endeavor.
Cook, no doubt at all, was one of the premier navigators of history.
He is up there with the Polynesians, Magellan, Columbus, Tasman and
a very few others.
Many put the Vikings in that class but they were coastal crawlers.
By Cooks time there had been improvements in longitude determination.
That most of his charting is still valid says everything about the man.
Posted by Bazz, Friday, 28 September 2018 10:44:46 AM
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He could have handed his lovely neat lines of ink to the various land-owners he met . But there was more to be said : "It all belongs to my land-owner George" after Parliament picked a Protestant winner in Germany and gave him the lot.
Posted by nicknamenick, Friday, 28 September 2018 11:37:36 AM
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Wake Up Australia

The Difference between Leftist's and Liberals.
http://youtu.be/tlIjMJBSnRE
Posted by Armchair Critic, Saturday, 29 September 2018 11:12:02 AM
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Dispersing the natives was the leftist slogan of racist socialists such as the Hanoverian workers' commune of 1714 led by king George 1.
His peasants and sailors' navy flew the revolutionist English Red Ensign . In 1674, a Royal Proclamation of King Charles II (1630-1685, reigned 1660-1685), confirmed that the Red Ensign was the appropriate flag to be worn by English workers ships. The wording of the 1674 proclamation indicates that the flag was customarily being used by English slaves before that date.
Posted by nicknamenick, Saturday, 29 September 2018 12:50:54 PM
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