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Captain Arthur Phillip (1738-1814) Captain Arthur Phillip is remembered as being the founder of the first European settlement in Australia. He originally commanded the flagship of the First Fleet,the "Sirius". The First Fleet consisted of eleven ships.The "Sirius" and the "Supply" were provided by the Royal Navy. The other ships were transport ships- privately owned merchant ships which the British Government hired. One official estimate of the First Fleet was 564 male and 192 female convicts,450 crew with civil and military personnel appointed to official duties,28 wives and 30 children(half of which belonged to the convicts). It appears that Captain Phillip did not have an illustrious career as a Naval Officer.
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Geoffrey Robertson: It shows, beyond reasonable doubt, that Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost. But he is not where Australians have been led to believe that he now lies.
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Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet, comprising 11 ships and around 1,350 people, arrived at Botany Bay between 18 and 20 January 1788. However, this area was deemed to be unsuitable for settlement and they moved north to Port Jackson on 26 January 1788, landing at Camp Cove, known as 'cadi' to the Cadigal people.
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Captain Arthur Phillip captured some Aboriginal people for them to learn more about the European way of living. He quickly grabbed a few Aboriginal men from the Cadigal tribe and took them to the ship as quick as possible before they could be stopped.
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Arthur Phillip was born in Fulham in 1738, the son of Jakob Philipp, a German-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth Breach, who had remarried after the death of her previous husband, a Royal Navy captain. Phillip was educated at the school of the Greenwich Hospital and at the age of 13 was apprenticed to the merchant navy.
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Captain Arthur Phillip’s instructions on landing in January 1788 were to found a settlement and to cultivate the land using convict labour. Early food production by convict labour ... was generally a failure and Phillip had realised by July that he needed experienced farmers. He wrote on 9th July 1788 to Evan Nepean, Under Secretary of the Home Department:
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