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The First Fleet was the 11 ships that departed from Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787 to found the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia.
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Bennelong was kidnapped by Governor Philip to learn more about the Indigenous Australians. A year after the First Fleet there was an outbreak of smallpox which hurt the population of the native Australians.
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