Mark Twain
Contents
Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
Mark Twain visited the Victorian Goldfields in 1895. Following his visit, he said of the Eureka Stockade:
- By and by there was a result, and I think it may be called the finest thing in Australasian history. It was a revolution – small in size; but great politically; it was a strike for liberty, a struggle for principle, a stand against injustice and oppression....It is another instance of a victory won by a lost battle. It adds an honorable page to history; the people know it and are proud of it. They keep green the memory of the men who fell at the Eureka stockade, and Peter Lalor has his monument.[1]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Twain, Mark (1897). Following The Equator. Classical Bookshelf.
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