Prior to 1775, convicts were sent to parts of North America and the West Indies.
Before 1775, Great Britain sent its convicts to parts of North America and the West Indies.
Transportation.
THE BRITISH TROOPS SENT
The first people sent to colonise Australia were convicts and the officers and marines sent to supervise them.
Captain Cook had nothing to do with the convicts. He died nine years before the convicts arrived in New South Wales.
Before 1775, Great Britain sent its convicts to parts of North America and the West Indies.
There were no convicts sent to Darwin. Darwin was only established some time after transportation of convicts to Australia ceased.
They were simply called "convicts".
The first convicts were sent to Australia on the First Fleet, which consisted of eleven ships. Subsequent convicts were also sent on ships, as that was the only method for transporting any cargo overseas. There were no aeroplanes.
why didnt many convicts return to England
Convicts were sent to Australia by England.
Prior to the revolutionary war which formed the USA, another 60,000 convicts were sent to North America (some sources say 50,000). About 165,000 British convicts were transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868. British convicts were also sent to Canada, as well as to its outposts in India, the Cape of Good Hope, Bermuda and Mauritius. Figures for these convicts are unknown, particularly as some of them were then sent on to Australia.
Transportation.
The Convicts sent to Australia were transported from Britain - however many of the convicts transported to Port Arthur in Tasmania (an Australian State) were American soldiers captured by the British during the war of independence. Many convicts had been sentenced to transportation to the Virginian plantations but this was not carried out because of the war of Independence and they were held in prison hulks until a new location for them could be found. Convicts were mostly sent to America before the war of Independence but were also sent to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and South Africa. A small number of emancipated convicts were sent to New Zealand - they were all boys. In earlier times there were instances of educated men transporting themselves to nearby France by their own means and thereby avoiding the pentlay of death which was typically commuted to transportation for educated men (called Benefit of Clergy)
No. The English also sent convicts to Australia, but they stopped doing that and started sending them to Australia because America became an independent nation.
about 162,000
what year comes before 1775? the answer 1774