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Originally Posted by susie123

I doubt if any of that lot would get deported. Captain Cook wasn't mapping Oz for another hundred years.

Not that everything you read on Wiki is factual but I go with this Mrs 123

Bloody Assizes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Some 800–850 men were transported to the West Indies where they were worth more alive than dead as a source of cheap labour.(The novel Captain Blood, and the later movies based on it, graphically portray this punishment.) Others were imprisoned to await further trial, although many did not live long enough, succumbing to 'Gaol Fever' (Typhus), which was rife in the unsanitary conditions common to most English gaols at that time. A woman named Elisabeth Gaunt had the gruesome distinction of being the last woman burnt alive in England for political crimes"