Australia
The Investigator at Kangaroo Island. Thoroughness of Flinders' work. His aims and methods. His explorations; the theory of a Strait through Australia. Completion of the map of the continents. A direct succession of great navigators: Cook, Bligh, Flinders, and Franklin. What Fl...
Assertions commonly made as to French plagiarism of Flinders' charts. Lack of evidence to support the charges. General Decaen and his career. The facts as to Flinders' charts. T...
28. CHAPTER 9. PORT JACKSON AND KING ISLAND.Le Naturaliste at Sydney. Boullanger's boat party. Curious conduct of Baudin. Le Naturaliste sails for Mauritius, but returns to Port Jackson. Re-union of Baudin's ships. Hospit...
24. volume 1 page 30 Hakluyt Society. "Australasia" was De Brosses' new nameA work written over one hundred and fifty years ago, recommending a project long since completed, can hardly be expected to be full of living interest. Yet this book of De Bross...
31. CHAPTER 12. CONCLUSIONS AND CONSEQUENCES.Further consideration of Napoleon's purposes. What Australia owes to British sea power. Influence of the Napoleonic wars. Fresh points relative to Napoleon's designs. Absence of...
26. CHAPTER 8. EXODUS OF THE EXPEDITION.The passports from the English Government. Sailing of the expedition. French interest in it. The case of Ah Sam. Baudin's obstinacy. Short supplies. The French ships on the West...
20. CHAPTER 4. TERRE NAPOLEON AND ITS NOMENCLATURE.Imprisonment of Flinders in Mauritius. The French atlas of 1807. The French charts and the names upon them. Hurried publication. The allegation that Peron acted under pressure....
19. CHAPTER 3. PORT PHILLIP.Conflict of evidence between Baudin, Peron, and Freycinet as to whether the French ships had sighted Port Phillip. Baudin's statement corroborated by documents. Examination of F...
29. CHAPTER 10. RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION.Le Geographe sails for Kangaroo Island. Exploration of the two gulfs in the Casuarina by Freycinet. Baudin's erratic behaviour. Port Lincoln. Peron among the giants. A painful e...
30. CHAPTER 11. RESULTS.Establishment of the First Empire. Reluctance of the French Government to publish a record of the expedition. Report of the Institute. The official history of the voyage authori...
17. CHAPTER 1. FLINDERS AND THE INVESTIGATOR.The Investigator at Kangaroo Island. Thoroughness of Flinders' work. His aims and methods. His explorations; the theory of a Strait through Australia. Completion of the map of t...
18. CHAPTER 2. THE AFFAIR OF ENCOUNTER BAY.Meeting of the Investigator and Le Geographe in Encounter Bay. Flinders cautious. Interview of the two captains. Peron's evidence. The chart of Bass Strait. Second interview: Ba...
16. PART 4.The position of the British in the South Seas demands special consideration, as being immediately related to our subject. In 1800 the only part of Australasia occupied by white...
23. CHAPTER 7. GENESIS OF BAUDIN'S EXPEDITION.Baudin's one of a series of French expeditions. The building up of the map of Australia. Early map-makers. Terra Australis. Dutch navigators. Emmerie Mollineux's map. Tasman and...
34. volume 15. (1881).TURNBULL, JOHN, Voyage round the World in the Years 1800 to 1804, in which the Author visited Madeira, the Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, Botany Bay, and Norfolk Island (pages 473...
22. CHAPTER 6. THE MOTIVES OF BONAPARTE.We will now turn to quite another aspect of the Terre Napoleon story, and one which to many readers will be more fruitful in interest. An investigation of the work of Baudin's e...
14. PART 2.The events with which this book is mainly concerned occurred within the four years 1800 to 1804, during which Europe saw Bonaparte leap from the position of First Consul of the...
27. did. The consequence was that the voyage to Port Jackson made a story ofprivations pitiful to read. The bare fact that it took Baudin from May 8 to June 20, forty-three days, to sail from Kangaroo Island to Sydney, whilst Flinders in the Investigato...
12. CHAPTER 12. CONCLUSIONS AND CONSEQUENCES.Further consideration of Napoleon's purposes. What Australia owes to British sea power. Influence of the Napoleonic wars. Fresh points relative to Napoleon's designs. Absence of...
13. PART 1.A continent with a record of unruffled peace. Causes of this variation from the usual course of history. English and French colonisation during the Napoleonic wars. The height o...
15. PART 3.It would be simple to sum up the colonial situation of Great Britain in the period under review, by saying that she gained just in the measure that France lost. But such a crude...
33. Volume 20.Naval Chronicle, 1799 to 1818. Various references to Baudin's expedition; there is a biographical sketch of Flinders in Volume 32, with portrait and facsimile of signature; acco...
32. Volume 1 pages 7 to 8, contains an account of the original objects andHUNTER, JOHN, Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in New South Wales and in the Southern Ocean s...
25. volume 14 page 103. The writer referred to was Bory de Saint-Vincent, whowrote the Voyage dans les quatre principales iles des mers d'Afrique, Paris 1804.) He related, on the alleged authority of an officer, that, being in want of a magnetic needle t...
5. CHAPTER 5. DID THE FRENCH USE FLINDERS' CHARTS?Assertions commonly made as to French plagiarism of Flinders' charts. Lack of evidence to support the charges. General Decaen and his career. The facts as to Flinders' charts. T...
7. CHAPTER 7. GENESIS OF BAUDIN'S EXPEDITION.Baudin's one of a series of French expeditions. The building up of the map of Australia. Early map-makers. Terra Australis. Dutch navigators. Emmerie Mollineux's map. Tasman and...
8. CHAPTER 8. EXODUS OF THE EXPEDITION.The passports from the English Government. Sailing of the expedition. French interest in it. The case of Ah Sam. Baudin's obstinacy. Short supplies. The French ships on the West...
9. CHAPTER 9. PORT JACKSON AND KING ISLAND.Le Naturaliste at Sydney. Boullanger's boat party. Curious conduct of Baudin. Le Naturaliste sails for Mauritius, but returns to Port Jackson. Re-union of Baudin's ships. Hospit...
4. CHAPTER 4. TERRE NAPOLEON AND ITS NOMENCLATURE.Imprisonment of Flinders in Mauritius. The French atlas of 1807. The French charts and the names upon them. Hurried publication. The allegation that Peron acted under pressure....
10. CHAPTER 10. RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION.Le Geographe sails for Kangaroo Island. Exploration of the two gulfs in the Casuarina by Freycinet. Baudin's erratic behaviour. Port Lincoln. Peron among the giants. A painful e...
1. CHAPTER 1. FLINDERS AND THE INVESTIGATOR.The Investigator at Kangaroo Island. Thoroughness of Flinders' work. His aims and methods. His explorations; the theory of a Strait through Australia. Completion of the map of t...
11. CHAPTER 11. RESULTS.Establishment of the First Empire. Reluctance of the French Government to publish a record of the expedition. Report of the Institute. The official history of the voyage authori...
3. CHAPTER 3. PORT PHILLIP.Conflict of evidence between Baudin, Peron, and Freycinet as to whether the French ships had sighted Port Phillip. Baudin's statement corroborated by documents. Examination of F...
2. CHAPTER 2. THE AFFAIR OF ENCOUNTER BAY.Meeting of the Investigator and Le Geographe in Encounter Bay. Flinders cautious. Interview of the two captains. Peron's evidence. The chart of Bass Strait. Second interview: Ba...
6. CHAPTER 6. THE MOTIVES OF BONAPARTE.