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They sailed from Portsmouth, England. There were eleven small ships in the first fleet Their where two naval ships six convict ships and three store ships for supplies
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The First Fleet arrived at Tenerife stayed a week and took on supplies of fresh food
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The first fleet crossed over the equator.
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They arrived at Rio de Janeiro stayed for a month repaired their sails to continue sailing.
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They reached Table bay which now they call CapeTown.
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The first fleet reached the middle of the indian ocean.
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They arrived at Botany Bay after sailing from Van Dieman’s Land.
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The members of the first fleet went ashore at Port Jackson to start a settlement.
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The gold rush in bathurst was one of the most places to have gold.
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Australian prospectors struck gold on February 12th, 1851. Minor discoveries of gold were made in Australia in the early days, but it was the Californian goldrush of 1849 which sharpened interest.
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1854 was when the soldiers came and started shooting at the miners and six of the soldiers died and over 125 miners were taken to jail and many were seriously in injured.
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Gold is a soft metal with a number of interesting properties.
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