William Buckley, the escaped convict who lived with aborigines for 32 years. William Buckley was an English convict who became famous for his escape and survival in the Australian wilderness.
One convict, Charles Shaw, was shot and severely injured, but the others escaped into the bush. Buckley and his companions made slow progress on foot but managed to walk around most of Port Phillip Bay. They survived on shellfish, succulent plants when they could find them.
William Buckley's escape
After hearing that the settlement was about to move to Tasmania, on Christmas Eve 1803 - knowing that the officers had been drinking and would be less alert than usual - some of the convicts stole a kettle, a gun, boots and medical supplies. At 9pm on 30 December, the group made its escape.
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(born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, and political commentator. In 1955, he founded National Review, the magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the mid-20th century United States.
At least ninety Australian Aboriginal people were transported as convicts. And, like the Māori, they were all men. Shocking stories began to emerge, all set against a backdrop of frontier conflict with the violence and intrigue that it had entailed.
Convicts, often led by free settlers or troopers, were involved in confrontations with and atrocities against Aboriginal groups. One such event occurred at Myall Creek Station in northern New South Wales, instigated by Australian-born settler John Fleming and involving convicts assigned from the Hyde Park Barracks.
William Buckley was a convict who escaped a penal colony in 1803. It was thought his chances of survival were very small leading to the phrase "you've got Buckley's or none" (or simply "you've got Buckley's").
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William Buckley was an English convict who became famous for his escape and survival in the Australian wilderness. He escaped from the British settlement in Sorrento, Victoria, Australia in 1803 and lived with the Wathaurong Aboriginal people for over 30 years before he was rediscovered by European settlers in 1835.
A reference to William Buckley (1780–1856), a white convict who escaped in Victoria in 1803 and lived among the Indigenous Australians there for 30 years (survival of non-indigenous people in the bush was reckoned "no chance").
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Buckley was convicted on 2 August 1802 at the Sussex Assizes of knowingly receiving a roll of stolen cloth. He was sentenced to transportation to New South Wales for fourteen years or life.
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'Buckley's chance' idiom
The origin of the Australian slang term "Buckley's chance" (meaning "little or no possibility" or "no chance at all") has been explained as rhyming slang, viz, "Buckley and Nunn" (meaning "None"); and as a punning reference ("You've two chances: Buckley's and none").
slang, Australia. : unquestionably good or genuine : excellent. often used as a general expression of approval. these cigars are fair dinkum.
Buckley's chance means you've got no chance at all, which is a little odd, considering Buckley managed to elude colonial authorities for over 30 years by escaping into the Australian bush where he lived with Indigenous people until giving himself up.
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Jeff Buckley was born in California's Orange County in 1966 and died in a tragic drowning accident in Memphis on May 29, 1997.
In May 2018, Buckley married actress Jenny Wade. They have one son together.
Samuel Terry (c. 1776 – 22 February 1838) was transported to Australia as a criminal, where he became a wealthy landowner, merchant and philanthropist. His extreme wealth made him by far the richest man in the colony with wealth comparable to the richer in England.
The islands were settled by different seafaring Melanesian cultures such as the Torres Strait Islanders over 2500 years ago, and cultural interactions continued via this route with the Aboriginal people of northeast Australia.