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At-least he will be factual and not a tangential supernova of shit-talking. #Election2025

If Cook never made it to Botany Bay, that colony may well have been in Patagonia.

So, if you're celebrating today, celebrate some facts.

Oi Oi Oi!

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4. 1776 - the American Revolution entailed that English convicts could no longer be dumped there.

After this, the inventor of the sandwich (Lord Sandwich), Joseph Banks and some former American colonists lobbied the Home Office to establish a penal colony in New South Wales.

3. In 1770, Polynesian navigator Tupaia ensured that James Cook didn't die a meandering death by starvation in the Pacific Ocean. Tupaia is the reason the Endeavour made it to Botany Bay in one piece so as possessory claims could be made on behalf of the Mad King George III.

2. The Black Act 1723. This law basically criminalised being poor and starving. English prisons became full, the excess 'criminal class' was shipped off to penal colonies in the Americas.

1. Shifts in land use/ownership - The Enclosure Movements / Death of the Commons / Forcing of English peasantry off their land into the Dark Satanic Mills of the Industrial Revolution.