Tag Archives: French escapees

In 1831, a group of Moreton Bay convicts seized the schooner Caledonia, took the Captain hostage, and set off on a murderous rampage through the islands of the South Pacific. More than fifty years later, a group of French convicts from the penal settlement at Noumea returned the compliment.  The twelve escaped convicts from the penal settlement at New Caledonia,Continue reading “The French Escapees – 22 September 1887”