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Frontier Magistrate: The Enigmatic Foster Fyans [paperback]

By: Publication details: Melbourne, Vic Australian Scholarly Publishing 2023.Description: 300 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781922952639
Summary: Foster Fyans was a significant figure in the European settlement of Victoria and the dispossession of its Aboriginal people. Fyans, who began his career as an impecunious Irish junior officer in the Napoleonic wars, eventually made his way to Australia, where he was appointed captain of the guard at Norfolk Island.
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Foster Fyans was a significant figure in the European settlement of Victoria and the dispossession of its Aboriginal people. Fyans, who began his career as an impecunious Irish junior officer in the Napoleonic wars, eventually made his way to Australia, where he was appointed captain of the guard at Norfolk Island.

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