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Phillip was appointed to be Governor and Captain General of the military colony at botany Bay.
His selection was influenced by the recommendation of his Patron, the Earl of Sandwich.
The Earl was able to cite appropriate experience - during the Colonia War in South America between Spain and Portugal, Phillip had been seconded from the Royal Navy to the Portuguese Navy to help Britain's long time ally Portugal, and had been given command of the trading town of Colonia on the Rio Plata, opposite Buenos Aires, which was at the centre of the dispute. In usual Portuguese fashion, the labour force of this outpost was convict (degradado).
So Philip had spent nine months successfully in contol of this settlement. The job in Botany Bay was the same - to control a military station supported by convicts. He therefore was qualified for the position in a way few others could be.
Incidentally, as the First Fleet sailed to its destination, it called in at Rio de Janiero for resupply. The people fondly remembered El Capitano, and the Fleet was made most welcome. The Sailors and Marines had a jolly good time, Rio style, but not of course the convicts, penned up on the transports.
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