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Lachlan Macquarie (Ulbha, 31 gennaio 1762 – Londra, 1º luglio 1824) è stato un generale scozzese. Fu governatore coloniale nel Nuovo Galles del Sud, in Australia, ed ebbe un ruolo cruciale nello sviluppo economico e sociale del territorio, che sotto la sua guida cominciò la transizione da colonia penale a libero insediamento.
Lachlan Macquarie was born on the Hebridean island of Ulva, near Mull. He joined the army as a boy and served in the British colonies. Initially he served in America and then, from 1787 to 1801, in India. At the start of the new century he fought against Napoleon's forces in Egypt.
Macquarie was born in Ulva, Argyllshire, Scotland, on January 31, 1761. As a boy he joined the British Army and served in North America, Europe, and the West Indies between 1776 and 1784. He was in India for two periods of service—1788–1803 and 1805–07. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Macquarie was appointed governor ...
Lachlan Macquarie was born on 31 January 1761 on the Isle of Ulva, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. His father, Lachlan Macquarie, was a cousin of the sixteenth and last chieftain of the clan MacQuarrie, while Macquarie's mother, Margaret (nee Maclaine) was the only sister of Murdoch Maclaine, 19th Laird of Lochbuy, in Mull.In 1775 the family moved from Ulva to a small farm at Oskamull (near ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), British officer and governor of New South Wales, sought to improve the status of emancipists and undertook a major public works program. Lachlan Macquarie, born on Jan. 31, 1762, came from a poor Scottish family in the Inner Hebrides. The American War of Independence offered him an opportunity to rise in the world ...
The aim of the Project is to increase and improve access to the writings of Lachlan Macquarie and Elizabeth Macquarie. Transcripts, artefacts, images and historical details will be added progressively to the website, thereby creating a digital gateway into the lives and times of the Macquaries in the period 1761-1835.
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