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Rum Rebellion

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Date:
January 26, 1808
Location:
Australia
New South Wales
Participants:
New South Wales Corps
Key People:
John Macarthur
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Rum Rebellion, (January 26, 1808), in Australian history, an uprising in which Gov. William Bligh of New South Wales (1806–08), who had earlier been the victim of the famous Bounty mutiny, was deposed by local critics, most of whom had ties with the New South Wales Corps. Bligh’s stifling of the colony’s rum traffic gave the rebellion its name, though other issues were also involved. Bligh had alienated the corps by accusing it of corruption and ineptitude. The immediate incident that led to the rebellion was Bligh’s arrest of John Macarthur, a former corps officer and one of the colony’s ...(100 of 231 words)

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