Bushrangers
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The bushrangers of the Australian gold rush which include
the notorious Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Lightning, Frank Gardiner and
Thunderbolt. The murderous Clarke brothers of the Clarke and Connell gang were
considered to be worse than any other bushrangers of the times and became known
as "The Bloodiest Bushrangers".
They were sons of an ex-convict in the Monaro, who raised his children to believe in his views of the fair and equitable distribution of property, beginning with horse and cattle stealing. The Clarke gang of relatives and friends was well trained in bushcraft and heavily armed. They maruaded through the area of the "Araluen Gold Fields".
They plundered publicans and storekeepers and ambushed Gold shipments from Nerrigundah and Araluen and the coaches that travelled from Sydney to the Illawarra. They moved virtually unchecked until November 1866 when they were caught by a posse of troopers.
They were sons of an ex-convict in the Monaro, who raised his children to believe in his views of the fair and equitable distribution of property, beginning with horse and cattle stealing. The Clarke gang of relatives and friends was well trained in bushcraft and heavily armed. They maruaded through the area of the "Araluen Gold Fields".
They plundered publicans and storekeepers and ambushed Gold shipments from Nerrigundah and Araluen and the coaches that travelled from Sydney to the Illawarra. They moved virtually unchecked until November 1866 when they were caught by a posse of troopers.