United Irishmen Rebellion in Australia 1804

#OnThisDay 1804 Over 200 United Irishmen, led by Philip Cunningham, exiled to Australia as convicts after the 1798 Rebellion organise a small scale insurrection against British Rules in New South Wales. It was quashed the next day by Militia at Castle Hill.

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