<p>Lieutenant General Watkin Tench (6 October 1758 - 7 May 1833) was a British marine officer who is best known for publishing two books describing his experiences in the First Fleet, which established the first settlement in Australia in 1788. His two accounts, Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson provide an account of the arrival and first four years of the colony. Tench joined His Majesty's Marine Forces, Plymouth division, as a second lieutenant on 25 January 1776, aged 17. He was promoted to first lieutenant on 25 January 1778 at the age of 19 years and 3 months.</p>

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (Esprios Classics)

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Tench, Watkin

Australia & Oceania

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Letters Written in France, to a Friend in London: Between the Month of November 1794, and the Month of May 1795

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Letters Written In France, To A Friend In London: Between The Month Of November 1794, And The Month Of May 1795 (1796)

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Kessinger Publishing

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Voyage A La Baie Botanique (1789) (French Edition)

Travel

Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner from 1794 to 1795 in Brittany, at the height of the French Revolution. During his imprisonment he wrote a series of letters to a friend in London (it is not clear whether this was genuine correspondence or a genre narrative), which was published in 1796. In them we learn of the adverse conditions he experienced on two convict hulks in Brest harbour, and his later period of parole in private lodgings in Quimper, which he recalls more favourably, as he was allowed to roam the countryside within a three-mile radius of the town. Tench's letters reveal his thoughts on the turbulence and uncertainty brought about by the revolution, and the resistance (largely inspired by religion) of the Bretons to it. This is a fascinating first-hand account of France at a time of rapid political change.

Letters Written in France, to a Friend in London: Between the Month of November 1794, and the Month of May 1795 (Cambridge Library Collection - European History)

Cambridge University Press

In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte was Watkin Tench (c.1758-1833), who wrote about the voyage of what was later known as the First Fleet. He remained in New South Wales, living in Port Jackson (part of present-day Sydney) from 1788 to 1791, and in this work, published in 1793, he gives a vivid, first-hand account of the early years of British settlement. The chapters are chronologically organised and discuss the many challenges settlers in the fledgling colony faced in staying alive, such as illness and lack of food and other provisions. He also recounts the often violent encounters and 'unabated animosity' between the settlers and the aboriginal people, making this work an important source on the colonisation of Australia.

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales: Including an Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony, of the ... Library Collection - History of Oceania)

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In May 1787 eleven ships left England with more than seven hundred convicts on board along with orders to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay New South Wales Watkin Tench c 17581833 was a crew member on one of the ships of this First Fleet the Charlotte and he recalls the voyage and early days of the settlement in this vivid and engaging account first published in 1789 The first half of the work retraces the route of the six month journey which took the fleet to Brazil and the Cape of Good Hope The later chapters recount the landing at Botany Bay in January 1788 the establishment of a colony at nearby Port Jackson and observations about the natural world in this new settlement Tench also discusses the initial interaction with the Aboriginal people making this work an important source for scholars of British colonialism and Australian history

A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: With an Account of New South Wales, its Productions, Inhabitants, etc. (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania)

A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay; with an account of New South Wales, its productions, inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a list of ... military establishments at Port Jackson....

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A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay; with an account of New South Wales, its productions, inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a list of ... at Port Jackson. By Captain Watkin Tench, ...

Letters written in France, to a friend in London, between the month of November 1794, and the month of May 1795. By Major Tench, ...

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