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Eureka Stockade Hardcover, ISBN 0207146462
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1983
Second Hand – Very Good. ‘On 3 December, 1854 at the Eureka gold diggings near Ballarat, Victoria, 14 diggers and five British soldiers died in a fierce pitched battle beneath the diggers’ defiant flag of the Southern Cross. Hailed by many as the first attempt to thow off the British yoke and establish a republic on Australian soil. This is a clear, factual, narrative account of what happened in the days leading up to the violent uprising.’ NO marks, stamps or inscriptions. Tight and clean.;… (AUSTRALIA GOLD HISTORY AUSTRALIANA, -)