Australian Bushrangers 1788 1880

The first ''bushrangers'' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness – ''the bush'' – in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small, scattered garrisons, but by 1825 the problem of outlawry led to the formation of the first Mounted Police from these soldiers.

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