by Richard Hiscocks | Jun 9, 2018 | 1787
For a couple of all too brief but exciting months during the autumn the Navy mobilised to meet the threat of a French involvement in Dutch affairs, but following sound diplomacy the so-called ?Dutch Armament? petered out and the disappointed officers returned...
by Richard Hiscocks | Apr 19, 2018 | 1787, The Peace of 1784-1792
In September 1786 Captain Arthur Phillip was chosen to head an expedition to establish a convict colony and the first white settlement on the east coast of New Holland, which part of what is now known as Australia had been claimed and named New South Wales by...
by Richard Hiscocks | May 5, 2018 | 1787
For the best part of seven years there had been trouble in the Dutch Republic where two opposing groups, the Orange Party, led by the Stadtholder, William V Prince of Orange, and the Patriots, a group keen to see the restoration of a republic, had been vying...
