Download or read book The Werribee Gun written by Allan Sterling, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864 the colony of Victoria purchased six of the revolutionary new 12 pounder Armstrong rifled breech loading field guns. Four of those guns survive today. By 1994 three of these four had been restored with gun number 370 remaining unrestored. In 2016 restoration of 370 began. This book details the five-year restoration by a group of extraordinarily skilled craftsmen using traditional skills and techniques becoming rare today. This book also details the history of the guns and their technical and operational details, information gathered by the authors over many years. As such this book contains a wealth of information for those interested in the Armstrong breech loading guns of the mid 1800s. Published with the support of the Royal Australian Artillery Association (Victoria) Inc as part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Royal Australian Artillery.
Download or read book The Galloping Guns of Rupertswood and Werribee Park written by Lindsay Charles Cox and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal written by Western Australia. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Succeeded Once written by Marie Hansen Fels and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ‘I Succeeded Once’ – The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula, 1839-1840, Marie Fels makes the work of William Thomas accessible to anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and the descendants of the Aboriginal people he wrote about. More importantly, people who live, work, study, holiday or just have a general interest in the area from Melbourne to Point Nepean can learn about the original inhabitants who walked the land before it was cleared for agriculture and urban development. Of course, development of the Mornington Peninsula is ongoing and this book will help those involved in development or the management of Aboriginal cultural heritage to identify, document and protect Aboriginal places that may not be identifiable through archaeological investigations alone. Marie Fels supplements Thomas’s writings with other contemporary accounts and her exhaustive historical research sheds new light on critical events and the significant places of the Boon Wurrung people. Of particular importance is the critical review of information about the kidnapping of Boon Wurrung people from the Mornington Peninsula.
Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Military History of Victoria Australia 1803 1945 written by Bob Marmion and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a case study of possibly the most complex defensive system in Australia between 1803 and 1945. Defending Victoria was such a wide ranging and demanding task that the colony, and later the state, of Victoria was known as the Gibraltar of the South. This book fills a major gap in Australian military and naval history. Using Victoria as a case study, the book shows how defence developed from the idea of a basic sand fort emanating from a fear of French invasion during the early 19th century, into a complex, modern three-dimensional defensive system incorporating air, land and sea defences as well as radar and secret defence technology by the 1940s. The book is not a simple narration of facts and events, but a substantial addition to Australian military history, on account of its extensive analysis of the political, social, economic and technological factors which impacted defence over many decades of the 19th century.
Download or read book The Lone Hand written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Department of Agriculture Western Australia written by Western Australia. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Colony of Victoria written by Henry Gyles Turner and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under Fire written by Nick Brodie and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each other, the firearm is an inescapable part of Australia’s story and its characters. But just as guns have been a part of Australia’s modern identity, so too has gun control. After the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, Australia became a world-leader in firearms regulation. Yet even before this tragedy, questions had long been brewing: questions over who could shoot what, where, and when. This is the story of the answers we negotiated. In Under Fire, acclaimed popular historian Nick Brodie takes a closer look at the role of guns in Australia and how we removed ourselves from the firing line.
Download or read book The Broken Wheel written by Kerry Greenwood and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Three Days disaster stripped the earth with fire, the people who were left formed groups to survive. There were the Travellers, who traded in small goods and stores. There were the medieval role players still carrying on such traditions in a place called Thorngard. There were the damaged tree men and the lost children. There was the Tribe, a loose gathering of nomads. And the city held the Breakers, the Children of the Broken Wheel, who destroyed every machine more complex than an egg timer, because the machines had brought catastrophe to the world. Out along the road, Sarah, a Child of the Breaker, encounters the Travellers in an attempt to save the world from a last final obliteration. An enthralling story from the author WHALEROAD, CAVE RATS, FERAL and the STORMBRINGER trilogy.
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Download or read book Collected Papers from the Science Laboratories of the University of Melbourne written by University of Melbourne and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
