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1806 - The Rum Rebellion(Describe what is rum and what they called rum in those days and what it was used for. Here were working class people running a country. No titles, no toffs, no earls, no dukes. this is the lower middle classes running a place. Yet while these people worked their guts out none of them could get a knighthood, yet later every scrap iron merchant, every second hand car dealer could get themselves a knighthood.)Captain Phillip Leaves Sydney Cove, Frank Grose, in charge, Says mazel-tov. U.S.S. "Hope" Arrives with liquor, New South Wales Corps Turns rum trafficker. Hunter comes But fails thoroughly, Officers keep The rum monopoly. Their power King Tries to overcome, Allows ex-convicts To sell rum. But the Corps hangs on To its stranglehold, Succeeds in getting King recalled. Famed for toughness Bligh is sent To break up The smart Regiment. Crown-owned rations Bligh disburses, Seizes Corps stills And their bulging purses. Macarthur using Tactic rubbery, Attempts on Bligh Some subtle bribery. Bligh refuses What's called barter, Bids his men: 'Arrest Macarthur!' Corps officials, Guarding their belly, Promptly counter, 'Not on your nelly.' Loyal Rum Corps Threaten to retort, And free Macarthur From the Sydney Court. Major Johnston They instigate Against Bill Bligh And his Judge Advocate. So the Major, In ignoble melČe, Arrests Bill Bligh On Australia Day.
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