A deep sense of wrong : the treason, trials and transportation to New South Wales of Lower Canadian rebels after the 1838 rebellion.

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St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1995.

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16205

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Prisoners -- History -- Canada.

Commonwealth law and history -- Australia.

Commonwealth law and history -- Canada.

Penal colonies -- History -- Canada.

Prisoners -- History -- New South Wales.

Penal colonies -- History -- New South Wales.

Contents:

Part One: Background to Rebellion

1 The first blow, autumn 1837: they wanted reform, and not revolution

2 'To overthrow her majesty's government'

Part Two: Treasons and trials

3 Fiasco in Chateauguay

4 Napierville - "To conquer or die'

5 From Euphoria to defeat in Beauharnois

6 'Damn you, and your queen, and your government's mayhem in Laprairie - caution in Terrebonne

7. Abuses, Numbers, and Processes

Part Three: Transportation and life in New South Wales

8. 'Taking a trip on a government ship

9. Sydney - 'Until yesterday a byword of reproach

10. Longbottom stockade: 'In French Long Fond ... a pretty enough place'

11. 'Land of a thousand sorrows

Part Four: The Conclusions.

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1864481056

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xiv, 367 p. : ill.