Relating the facts behind the myth, this eyewitness account tells the vivid and accurate story of the horrific 1854 Eureka Stockade, a revolt against police and soldiers involving 120 miners from the Ballart gold mines in Australia that left 35 dead and a legacy of courage and freedom that has shaped ideas of Australian nationhood ever since.
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Raffaello Carboni was an accomplished writer and composer and a celebrated Italian revolutionary.
'. . . merits being 'prescribed' reading in every Australian school, and self-prescribed reading for every Australian citizen' Brian Fitzpatrick -- (Brian Fitzpatrick, rev.)
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