What does Peter Lalor and Bakery Hill have in common?

Answer 1

Bakery Hill was one of the precursors to the Eureka Stockade, which was led by Peter Lalor. On 22 October 1854, approximately 10,000 miners gathered at Bakery Hill directly across the flat from the Government Camp, on the road to the mainly Irish encampment of Eureka. In a non-violent campaign, they attempted to air their grievances, but were met with complete inaction. The lack of interest in the miners' plight was the catalyst to the Eureka Stockade which occurred over a month later near Ballarat. On 30 November 1854, Peter Lalor was elected as a more militant leader. On December 1, the miners began to construct a wooden stockade from which they planned to defend themselves against further licence arrests. At 3:00am on Sunday, 3 December 1854, 276 police and military personnel and several civilians stormed the stockade, resulting in the deaths of 22 diggers and 5 troopers.