The Governor of Victoria during the Eureka Stockade was Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe.
Charles hotham was the governor of Victoria, Australia from 1854-1855. He died at the end of his governorship. The Eureka Stockade was during his governorship.
They were primarily armed with weapons taken from the dead and wounded.
The soldiers did not eat anything during the so-called massacre. It was begun and done too fast for anything but firing of weapons.
The Eureka Stockade was the 1854 miners' uprising on the goldfields of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Conditions on the Australian goldfields were harsh. Most diggers worked from dawn to dusk, six days a week. Sometimes they were lucky and had a good strike. Often they found very little at all. The main source of discontent was the miner's licence, which cost a monthly fee of 30 shillings and permitted the holder to work a 3.6 metre square "claim". Licences had to be paid regardless of whether a digger's claim resulted in the finding of any gold. Troopers (goldfields police) conducted frequent licence hunts, during which the miners were ordered to produce proof of their licences, and this added to the discontent and increasing unrest. Previous delegations for miners' rights had met with a complete lack of action from the Victorian government, so on 29 November 1854, the miners burned their licences in a united, mass resistance against the laws over the miners. Following a widespread licence hunt on November 30, Irish immigrant Peter Lalor was elected to lead the rebellion, which culminated in the huge battle, now known as the Battle of the Eureka Stockade, on December 3. A lesser-known catalyst to the Eureka Stockade was the death of James Scobie, an unassuming Scottish gold miner. After becoming involved in a fight at the Eureka Hotel, also known as Bentley's Hotel, Scobie died on 7 October 1854. An inquest into his death absolved the hotel owner, Bentley, and his staff of any wrongdoing. The miners, however, felt that justice had not been carried out, and held a meeting outside the hotel in mid-October. There were a lot of angry people, and subsequently a riot ensued and the hotel was incinerated. As a result of this, more troopers were sent from Melbourne, and miners had to endure even more frequent licence checks, and more frequent clashes between miners and troopers. The response of the miners to the extra licence checks was to build the Stockade, named the Eureka Stockade, and barricade themselves in so the troopers couldn't get in to check their licences. In turn, the response of the authorities to this was to send in armed soldiers to break down the stockade, which was only flimsy anyway. This was the battle of the Eureak Stockade.
The main weapons used during the Eureka Stockade were guns and bayonets.
During the Eureka Stockade, it is believed that 34 diggers and 6 troopers were killed in the battle against each other. Actual figures of the diggers were unconfirmed.
The Eureka Stockade was constructed during the afternoon of Saturday 2 December 1854.
The Governor of Victoria during the Eureka Stockade was Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe.
what affect did peter lalor and the Eureka Stockade have on colonial Australia
The Australian Aborigines had nothing to do with the Eureka Stockade. The clash was between the diggers and the troopers.
It was the Eureka Hotel that burnt down during the Eureka stockade.
the eueka stockade occured in ballarat
The Eureka flag was raised upon Bakery Hill, within the Eureka Stockade, where it flew during the battle. On the day after the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat Camp clerk S.D.S. Huyghye, describing the events of the stockade to a friend, wrote that "… the policeman who captured the flag exhibited it to the curious and allowed such as so desired to tear off small portions of its ragged end to preserve as souvenirs."
During the Eureka Stockade, it is believed that 34 diggers and 6 troopers were killed in the battle against each other. Actual figures of the diggers were unconfirmed.
The Eureka flag hung above the Eureka Stockade, as a symbol of rebellion against the authorities and their unfair treatment of the miners.
The Eureka Stockade was a ramshackle structure made of timber and corrugated iron that served as a makeshift fort during the Eureka Rebellion in 1854. It was surrounded by a makeshift barricade made of overturned carts and other materials. The stockade was the focal point of the rebellion where miners gathered to protest against unfair mining regulations imposed by colonial authorities.