Eureka

by John N. Molony

Book Overview

The story of the Eureka Stockade, Australia's first and only armed rebellion for democratic rights.

Before dawn on 3 December 1854, colonial troopers at Ballarat attacked a group of gold miners who had thrown up a stockade in defiance and defence. Some diggers had guns, but many were unarmed; some twenty of them were killed, along with four troopers.

In the decades that followed, the truth of what happened that morning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522849628
• ISBN13: 9780522849622
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"