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William Bligh, the governor of New South Wales, was deposed in the only military coup in Australian history.
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William Bligh
Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator (1754–1817)
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)