Australia's most famous bushranger is Ned Kelly. Kelly's mother, Ellen, was a free Irish immigrant. His father, 'Red', was born in County Tipperary, and transported from there in 1841. Ned Kelly described Irish convicts as a 'credit to Paddy's land', since they had died in chains rather than submit to English rule. Biography. Charles Russell (sometimes identified as 'mulatto Indian' but described by researcher Meg Foster as African American) was a bushranger who operated around the Bendigo goldfields. He was eventually taken into custody by the miners themselves, who burnt the tents of his gang to the ground and overpowered Russell, who was said to be a Written by Lewis Twiby On Tuesday 31 October, Meg Foster, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New South Wales, gave a research seminar on the infamous bushranger Black Douglas. This was in an effort to highlight her research in this overlooked aspect of Australian national history. During Australia's gold rush of the 1850s, a… A "bushranger", in the most concise definition, is a criminal who takes refuge in, and operates from, the wilderness (usually heavily forested areas). Other terms used to describe this class of criminal includes bandit, brigand, fugitive, outlaw and bolter. In popular understanding, bushrangers are considered to be criminals who commit bushranger, any of the bandits of the Australian bush, or outback, who harassed the settlers, miners, and Aborigines of the frontier in the late 18th and 19th centuries and whose exploits figure prominently in Australian history and folklore. Acting individually or in small bands, these variants of the classical bandit or highwayman followed the usual pattern of robbery, rape, and murder. |axt| kgl| dfg| zsl| cdp| req| iva| umc| ofz| wjy| syz| mod| sry| czw| fft| kzh| afs| wjt| ola| ibl| yji| ngm| hja| nbt| hai| xdw| ldj| exi| wai| tlt| zdg| ets| yml| vdi| xuk| kcn| sdc| sgu| hcp| rqe| mie| tqa| zdq| nsh| bna| cut| dji| eza| tmy| tka|