Quote Originally Posted by Kombucha
They sent people there that comitted small crimes that weren't enough for real imprisonment or execution, they didn't exactly send mass murderers there.
Thats the great lie that is still pushed to pervert the real history,The "convicts" were mainly Irish with a few Scots and Welsh thrown in,Do you really believe that the English at ENORMOUS expense would send (this is the nonsense we are taught at school)Men and women who had stolen a loaf of bread all the way to Australia? No these people had had their land stolen off them by the militarily superior English,these were the people the English chased off in Northern Ireland,the ones still in N Ireland fighting the English still (IRA etc)weren't as persisent in turning back up to reclaim/resettle their land so they shipped them out here which was (and still is ) the end of the Earth,with little or back then more accurately NO CHANCE of finding their way back to rightfully RE-CLAIM their land.