Military – Moreton Bay and More

18 June 1815 – the Battle of Waterloo

And the Veterans who helped create Brisbane “I say, Carruthers, don’t trip over that dead French chappie”. Waterloo. As any schoolchild knows, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo in 1815. Well, actually, if the curriculum they study today is anything like the one I passed through, largely unscathed, schoolchildren todayContinue reading “18 June 1815 – the Battle of Waterloo”

The Soldier Convicts of Moreton Bay

The military detachments who served at Moreton Bay had some interesting prisoners to manage. As well as the twice-convicted felons, there were men who might have served alongside them at one time, had it not been for war or arduous remote postings. Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars Among the soldier convicts at Moreton Bay inContinue reading “The Soldier Convicts of Moreton Bay”