Tall ship First Fleet re-enactment on Sydney Harbour, Australia Day, 1988. The Australian Bicentenary was marked with much ceremony across Australia. Australian Overseas Information Service - National Archives of Australia, via Wikimedia. The Bicentenary what we owe to the people who have been before us – the Aboriginals who have lived on this continent for some 40,000 years, those who settled Australia in 1788, and those who have made Australia the home of their choice since then.’ After being renamed, it was transferred to Bermuda and Nova Scotia, before seeing action against the United States in the War of 1812. The regiment was disbanded in 1818.

B. H. Fletcher (1966). "Foveaux, Joseph (1767–1846)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1. Melbourne University Press. pp.407–409 . Retrieved 28 July 2009. The officers and men had come to the colony expecting better financial and living situations than they had had in England. Until the later years of the 19 th century, individual colonies generally celebrated dates important to their own foundation and tended to look on the 26 January as a singularly New South Wales anniversary. By 1888 however, on the centenary of British settlement, when representatives from each colonial government in Australia joined Lord Carrington, the New South Wales Governor in Sydney for the occasion, there was growing acceptance that the date was of national significance, although it continued to be known as Anniversary Day. Kept under house arrest until he escaped and sailed to the Derwent, Bligh was not reinstated to his authority until the arrival of Lachlan Macquarie in 1810, when after a brief official recognition, Macquarie relieved Bligh as Governor. Bligh then returned to London where he was later present at the court martial of George Johnston, now promoted Colonel. In his defence Colonel Johnston produced a document signed by many individuals in Sydney which he claimed as evidence of the widespread alarm and chaos rampant during Bligh’s administration, and the justification for his extraordinary actions. Unhappily for Colonel Johnston, it didn’t convince anyone and he was duly cashiered from the army! The Australian folk punk band Mutiny included a song called "Bligh", about the rebellion and the earlier Mutiny on the Bounty, on their 1997 debut album Rum Rebellion. [ citation needed]In trying to limit the rum trade Bligh forbade bartering and introduced regulations securing government control of ships in port. For the officers in particular, this meant land grants from the governor, access to free labour from assigned convicts and freedom to conduct lucrative trading.

Dando-Collins, Stephen, Captain Bligh's Other Mutiny: The True Story of the Military Coup that Turned Australia into a Two-Year Rebel Republic, Sydney, Random House, 2007.a b c d e f g h i j "102nd Regiment of Foot". Regiments.org (archived version). Archived from the original on 13 January 2008 . Retrieved 4 January 2013. On arrival in New South Wales, Johnston served as adjutant to Governor Arthur Phillip, and was promoted in 1789 to the rank of Captain-Lieutenant of Marines. He transferred from the New South Wales Marine Corps to the locally raised New South Wales Corps in 1791 with the rank of captain. [4] [5] [7] The first four governors, all navy men, had great problems controlling the army officers, who resented what they saw as the navy’s interference on land.

One of Bligh's first actions was to use the colony's stores and herds to provide relief to farmers who had been severely affected by flooding on the Hawkesbury River, a situation that had disrupted the barter economy in the colony. Supplies were divided up according to those most in need and provisions were made for loans to be drawn from the store based on capacity to repay. This earned Bligh the gratitude of the farmers, but the enmity of traders in the Corps who had been profiting greatly from the situation. [6] With a new TV advertising campaign and a growing customer list, Jamie hopes the company - with a distillery based in Glasgow - can grow despite the difficulties that Covid-19 has thrown up. In fact, he had been selected for the post of Governor of New South Wales, largely because of his reputation for firm discipline, to curb the power and corrupt practices of the News South Wales Corps and some private individuals in the colony. Serle, Percival (1949). "Johnston, George". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson . Retrieved 18 August 2009. Many of the regiment's officers became wealthy and powerful individuals from their corrupt practices while in control of the colony. These officers and their descendants went on to become prominent colonists, government officials and land-holders in Australia. [20] Examples are:Thankfully as we’d already started to get things running we were able to continue with our launch and the response has been incredible. a b c d Neville, Richard (May 1991). "The Arrest of Governor Bligh: Pictures and Politics". Australiana. 13 (2): 38–42. Even though we have the significant number 45 in our name, we’re not waving saltires around. We’re just independently minded in terms of our brand. We’re not scared of being on either side and we’ve had terrrific engagement with people who sit on either side of the fence.

The regiment was formed in England in June 1789 as a permanent unit to relieve the New South Wales Marine Corps, who had accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. [1] The regiment began arriving as guards on the Second Fleet in 1790. The regiment, led by Major Francis Grose, consisted of three companies numbering about 300 men. Although drafts were sent from Britain to reinforce the regiment throughout its time in Australia, full strength was never to exceed 500. [2]a b "Governor Bligh's Arrest, 1808". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013 . Retrieved 8 March 2013. This painting of William Bligh by Helen S Tiernan is based on a 1776 portrait by John Webber.William Bligh, a contentious figure in both British and Australian history, was the fourth Governor of New South Wales. Bligh arrived in the colony in August 1806 but in January 1808 was arrested and overthrown by the military during what became known as the Rum Rebellion. Bligh fled to Hobart and although the military action would later be ruled illegal in London courts, Bligh never returned as Governor. ANMM Collection 00055148. The Rum Rebellion A fourth company was raised from those Marines wishing to remain in New South Wales under Captain George Johnston, who had been Governor Arthur Phillip's aide-de-camp. [3] a b Auchmuty, J. J. (1966). "Hunter, John (1737–1821) Australian Dictionary of Biography". Melbourne University Press. pp.566–572 . Retrieved 12 August 2009.