[Gutenberg 3546] • The Eureka Stockade
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- Authors
- Carboni, Raffaello
- Publisher
- Melbourne University
- Tags
- ballarat (vic.) -- biography , italians -- australia -- ballarat (vic.) -- biography , 1817-1875 , eureka stockade (ballarat , revolutions -- australia -- ballarat (vic.) -- history -- 19th century , gold miners -- australia -- ballarat (vic.) -- social conditions -- 19th century , vic.) -- history , carboni , history , raffaello , gold mines and mining -- australia -- ballarat (vic.) -- history -- 19th century , ballarat (vic.) -- history -- 19th century , victoria -- gold discoveries , ballarat (vic.) -- social conditions -- 19th century
- ISBN
- 9780522845860
- Date
- 1855-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.15 MB
- Lang
- en
In Australia's folk memory, one event will forever stand as the great example of courage and resistance to authority: the Eureka Stockade.
On the Ballarat goldfields, at dawn on 3 December 1854, 120 angry miners fought 276 police and soldiers in our own little rebellion'. The miners had risen in revolt against what they felt was a harsh and oppressive government. When the firing died down, five of the troops and thirty miners lay dead among the ruins of the Stockade, and a legend was about to be born.
Here is the only full-length eyewitness account of the Eureka Stockade, published a year after the uprising, written by an Italian revolutionary who wrote the book to 'set the record straight'.
This edition is introduced by Tom Keneally--writer, republican and upholder of human rights. To him, the events were 'a practical assertion of fair-goism which, at the cost of some anguish and death, produced good results' for the Australian people.