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The Rum Rebellion is the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in New South Wales.

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Rum Rebellion

1808 coup in Britain's New South Wales Colony

The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was a coup d'état in the British penal colony of New South Wales, staged by the New South Wales Corps in order to depose Governor William Bligh. Australia's first and only military coup, its name derives from the illicit rum trade of early Sydney, over…
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January 26

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