Australian Colonial Settlement

Lachlan Macquarie was a man who showed through his military record that he upheld high standards of order and discipline.

Macquarie joined the army when he was only 14, and he gained a lot of experience through his involvement in a number of campaigns in North America, India and Egypt.

When the British government was looking for a new Governor in its outlying post of New South Wales in 1808, Macquarie's military training and vision for organisation and discipline made him an ideal candidate to restore order to the colony, which was still in some disarray following the Rum Rebellion against deposed Governor William Bligh.

Governor Lachlan Macquarie was in Australia from the end of December 1809 until 15 February 1822. This was just over twelve years.

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He was finally captured at the Glenrowan pub - later hung at Old Melbourne Jail.

He was captured during the Glenrowan Seige. Ned and his gang had planned to derail a police train and kill all the policemen on board, including the Queensland black trackers who had been running him down, but a school master (Curnow) escaped from the pub where Ned was buying drinks for the townspeople (who were being held as hostages so to protect them from the danger) and alerted authorities.

The train was stopped before it was derailed and Ned, Joe and Dan Kelly and Steve Hart were eventually surrounded in the pub along with the hostages. After the police superintendent was shot, the leaderless police fired indiscriminately at hostages trying to leave the pub until one of the constables threatened to shoot the sergeant (Steele) who was leading this murderous fire.

The armour the gang wore was well constructed, but did not cover their arms or legs, which the policemen quickly figured out and aimed for. Joe, Steve and Dan all lost their lives during this night, and Ned was captured, badly wounded from the fighting (Steele again had to be threatened with being shot as he attempted to murder the captured Ned).

While the conduct of some of the police was criminal, this did not apply to all. Nor does it discount the murderous careers of the gang.

Ned was transported by train to the Melbourne Gaol, where he awaited trial and was then hanged - his final words "Such is life".

For a full account see:

http://www.glenrowan1880.com/siege%20story.htm

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Lachlan Macquarie was Governor of the New South Wales colony from 1810 to 1821. With his military training and vision for organisation and discipline, Macquarie was an ideal candidate to restore order to the colony, following the Rum Rebellion against deposed Governor William Bligh. He was a strong disciplinarian, with a vision for order and consistency in the colony.

Macquarie had high standards for the transition of New South Wales from prison colony to free settlement. He introduced the first building code into the colony, requiring all buildings to be constructed of timber or brick, covered with a shingle roof, and to include a chimney.

Macquarie also ordered the construction of roads, bridges, wharves, churches and public buildings. This even extended to Van Diemen's Land, of which Macquarie not not directly governor, but over which he still held some influence as the island colony was still considered part of New South Wales at that stage. After inspecting the sprawling, ramshackle settlement of Hobart Town in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Macquarie ordered government surveyor John Meehan to survey a regular street layout: this layout still forms the current centre of the city of Hobart.

Macquarie was also a great sponsor of exploration. In 1813 he sent Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson across the Blue Mountains, where they found the grazing plains of the interior. After their discovery, Macquarie ordered the establishment of Bathurst, Australia's first inland city. He appointed John Oxley as surveyor-general and sent him on expeditions up the coast of New South Wales and inland to find new rivers and new lands for settlement.

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