Prior to the American Revolutionary...
Even as the British were...
In 1789 the French Revolution forced...
In 1794–95 the revolutionary French...
Baudin’s French exploratory...
In 1806 William Bligh was made...
France’s occupation of the...
Until the 1810s all British attempts...
In 1815 the Napoleonic Wars came to...
The island of Van Diemen’s Land...
Initial British claims to Australia...
The arrival of muskets and other...
