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First Fleet
The
First Fleet
was the
fleet[?]
of
sailing ships
that brought the original
settlers[?]
and
convicts
to
Australia
from
England
. Captain
Arthur Phillip
led the fleet out of
Portsmouth
,
England
on
May 13
,
1787
with eleven ships full of convicts to establish a
penal colony
in Australia. The fleet landed in
Sydney Cove[?]
in what would later become
Sydney
,
Australia
on
January 26
,
1788
(now known as
Australia Day
). On
January 28
they established the first permanent
European
settlement on the continent at
Botany Bay[?]
.
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