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The New South Wales Volunteer Artillery and Yeomanry Cavalry 1857

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Walter G Mason
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Mason, Walter G

National Library of Australia

Defending colonial Sydney

For more than a century, Sydney faced recurrent and often well-founded fears of raids and even invasion. The British Empire's enemies and rivals sent warships into the Pacific to annexe territories, and Sydney was a potentially desirable conquest. Fortress Sydney grew out of anticipated dangers that could not be ignored.

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Government House

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Governor's residence commissioned by Governor Bourke and constructed of local sandstone between 1836 and 1843 in the Gothic Revival style.