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they used convicts to make their cities
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The 11 ships left England carrying 780 convicts and 570 free settlers.
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They arrived at Botany Bay but that wasn't a good place becasue there was too much wind and there was dirty water which they couldn't drink. So the captain thought that wasn't a good place to settle the convicts.
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They landed at an unnamed place, believed to be the beachfront at Camp Cove. First landing of members of the First Fleet with Port Jackson and the first known as European landing in Sydney Harbour.
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After moving further into the harbour, Phillip raised the British flag at Sydney Cove. 751 convicts and their children unload, along with 252 marines and their families.
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Two more convict fleets arrived in 1790
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This settlement was made at Risdon when 5o convicts and men landed there but it was abandoned by 1904 an replaced with a settlement at Hobart with 178 convicts in total.
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260 people lived there which included 178 convicts.
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This continued untill 1853 in this time many convicts were sent there.
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In 1824 the penal colony at Redcliffe was established by Lieutenant John Oxley.
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The colony of Van Diemen's Land was established in its own right in 1825.
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Western Australia was established in 1827.
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Twenty percent of first convicts were womens.The majority of women convicts and many free women seeking employment were sent to the female factories as unassigned women. The female factories were originally profit making textile factories. The Parramatta Factory grew as enclave for pregnant women and also served as orphanage from the 1830s.
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Many prisoners at this prison went they could not speak to anybody or hear anything for 23 hours a day. Even during when people were trying to talk with them. The time they were made to wear masks so they couldnt see each other.
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269 convicts arrive at Rottnest on the ship Huogomont.
