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Botany Bay as a new British settlement (the letter to Treasury dated I8 August 1786 from Lord Sydney, Secretary of State for the Home Office)' stated categorically that it was so chosen to be the destination urgently needed to rid Britain of an overflow of felons in her prisons, and with no other purpose mentioned, it has been assumed, until
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On 18 August 1786, the decision was made to send a colonisation party of convicts, military, and civilian personnel to Botany Bay under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, who was appointed as Governor of the new colony. There were 775 convicts on board six transport ships.
determine why the British government in 1786 decided to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay on the east coast of the newly discovered New South Wales that was situated many thousands of kilometres from English ports and outposts.
penal colony popularly known as Botany Bay (located close to present-day Syd- ney). As Dorice Williams Elliott has shown in a recent monograph, the transported
3 1 2 BOTANY BAY: April. on the south-west coast of Africa, had to do with administration manoeuvring.1 Various memoranda show that when it became politically impossible to proceed with the Lemane scheme, Nepean set the administration on course to Das Voltas Bay, as recommended. by Captain Edward Thompson.
In May 1787, eleven ships left England with more than seven hundred convicts on board, along with orders to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay, New South Wales.
