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Hace 1 día · When the English admiral Arthur Phillip arrived off the coast of southeastern Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, he sailed first to Botany Bay, which had been discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770 and to which he had been directed by the British government.
Hace 1 día · Arthur Phillip was commander of the expedition; he was to take possession of the whole territory from Cape York to Tasmania, westward as far as 135° and eastward to include adjacent islands. Phillip’s power was to be near absolute within his domain.
Hace 5 días · The little fleet, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, sailed from Portsmouth to Tenerife, then to Rio de Janeiro and from there they set across the Atlantic through the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Town and on to Australia.
Hace 5 días · Arthur Phillip, enlightened Governor through almost the first five years of the nascent colony, would certainly have studied the best charts, and the laws of the day appertaining to the establishment of the colony and the founding of New South Wales.
Hace 5 días · Arthur Phillips, a musician who served Queen Henrietta Maria as organist in France, later served as steward to John Caryll the elder at Harting. The Rev. Gilbert White of Selborne, father of modern natural history, lived at East Harting from 1754 to 1792.
Hace 2 días · When Captain Arthur Phillip of the British Royal Navy landed with the First Fleet at Botany Bay in 1788, there may have been between 250,000 and 500,000 Aboriginals, though some estimates are much higher.
Hace 2 días · The 16,000 mile (25,750km) voyage, made at the speed of a man walking, eventually settled in what Captain Arthur Phillip called Sydney Cove, very close to what is now Circular Quay. So ended one of the great nautical achievements of the modern world.
