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From Man Alone to Global Potentiality; The Course of Australian Poetry

http://www.saltpublishing.com/saltmagazine/issues/01/text/Birns_Nicholas.htm

Nicholas Birns
Nicholas Birns is currently teaching both at Eugene Lang College and The New School for General Studies, two divisions of The New School in New York City. His academic duties include teaching in the online division of the New School, one of the most successful ventures in Internet-based distance learning, where he has taught since 1996.

SITES TO SEE : NEW SOUTH WALES

NEW SOUTH WALES

THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE.

1812 WAR NORTH AMERICA : RANDOM LINKS.

A SHORT CHRONOLOGY
The War of 1812 in the Northwest

http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/war1812/chronology/0004.html

OHIO HISTORY.

SHORT CHRONOLOGY INC TIME PERIOD WHEN PATRICK MCNALLY WAS COURTMARTIALLED.

A SHORT CHRONOLOGY
The War of 1812 in the Northwest

1812–WINCHESTER’S CAMPAIGN, October 2-November, early.

1812, October 2. General Harrison hears from General Winchester that the British have retreated. He orders General Barbee to return to St. Mary’s and Colonel Poague to cut a road from Ft. Jennings to Ft. Defiance. The rest of the army continues its march in five columns, about 1,000 men. Harrison arrives at Winchester’s camp and finds the troops disgusted and dispirited. Ft. Winchester is laid out near old Ft. Defiance and is built by a detachment of 250 men under the orders of Major Joseph Robb. Harrison then returns to St. Mary’s with Colonel R. M. Johnson, where these troops are discharged October 7th. Colonel Poague is ordered to return to the Ottawa Towns, about 12 miles above St. Mary’s and there to erect a fort (Ft. Amanda). General Winchester receives the command of the left wing of the Northwest Army from Harrison.

1812, October 4. Before Harrison left Defiance, he ordered General Edward Tupper to take all of his 800 mounted men down the Maumee to the Rapids and even farther if he should find it necessary to disperse the enemy. He was to return to Ft. Defiance or the Ottawa Towns on Blanchard’s Fork. He was supposed to leave October 5, but an alarm in camp occasioned by the sighting of some Indians across the river who fire into the American camp keep him at Ft. Defiance.

1812, October 6. General Edward Tupper send Logan and six other Indians down the river to reconnoitre. General Winchester orders Tupper to advance, but Tupper says he is awaiting the return of his spies. When his spies come back they report seeing only about 50 Indians.

1812, October 7. General Tupper wants to go to the Rapids by way of the Ottawa Towns on Blanchard’s Fork; his force is considerably hurt when about 300 mounted riflemen, whose terms had run out and who were disgusted with Tupper, leave the camp for home.

1812, October 8. General Winchester orders Colonel Slimrall to return to the Ohio settlements with his mounted regiment to recruit his horses. Orders are given to General Tupper to begin his expedition, but many of the men did not want to serve under Tupper. Colonel Allen tenders his services to Tupper in any capacity they would be received. General Winchester misunderstands Allen’s wishes and directs him to take the command and march to the Rapids. Allen tells Winchester of the mistake and the order is withdrawn. Meanwhile, most of the men have refused to march directly to the Rapids and General Tupper marches them to the Auglaize, thence to the Ottawa Towns, where he tells them that reinforcements are on their way from Ohio. At this point, the troops, except for about 200, refuse to continue to the Rapids. Tupper then proceeds by the most direct route to Urbana and discharges only those who have been willing at all times to obey. For this Tupper is court-martialed by Winchester. Meanwhile, Tupper has marched his remaining force as far as McArthur’s fort on Hull’s trace and the court martial is delayed. When the court is held later, Tupper is acquitted.

1812, November, early. General Tupper sends a spy company under Captain Hinkston to reconnoitre the Rapids. There the captain discovers a British captain named Clarke and takes him prisoner. He reports that there were 3-400 Indians and 75 British at the Rapids to gather corn.

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http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/war1812/chronology/0017.html

1812, September 27. General Harrison sends an express to Pittsburgh, ordering artillery and supplies from thence to proceed to Georgetown on the Ohio and from thence by New Lisbon and Canton to Wooster.

1812, October 1. General Harrison marches his troops in rain and mud, past Ft. Jennings, where foot troops are halted.

1812, c. October 5. General Harrison, at St. Mary’s, is informed that Indians are again collecting to attack Ft. Wayne. He sends a detachment of 1,500 mounted volunteers under Colonel Allen Trimble to Ft. Wayne and then on to White Pidgeon’s Town on the headwaters of St. Joseph’s of the Lake, about 60 miles from Ft. Wayne. When Trimble arrives at Ft. Wayne, 1/2 of his command refuses to go farther; he takes the part which will advance and destroys the Indian villages.

 

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http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

United States — History — War of 1812 – Fiction

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APOLOGIES

For any delays or  poor presentation on this blog, I do apologise. The Vodafone problems have recurred giving me minimal access to my sites. Steps are underway to change ISPs and work can then resume.  Again, O Loyal Followers, bear with me. I have plenty of new material to add. Yrs , nellibell49.

APOLOGIES

For any delays or  poor presentation on this blog, I do apologise. The Vodafone problems have recurred giving me minimal access to my sites. Steps are underway to change ISPs and work can then resume.  Again, O Loyal Followers, bear with me. I have plenty of new material to add. Yrs , nellibell49.

TRANSITION

Due to re-location from Tweed to Clarence, there will be a break between posts. The Clarence residence incorporates a study area of considerable dimensions and a fine view over Big River Country. Bear with me till I am settled in. Many Thanks.

PUTTING POETRY TO MUSIC

 

Drawing a comparison here with the folk tradition of putting the verse to music. Melinda’s COLLIERS’ STRIKE SONG is undergoing that process at this time in long honoured working class tradition. Melinda McNally Kendall’s entire story is one of poverty, struggle and class schisms, possibly even extending to the way in which she was viewed by the Kendall Family and a childhood in which her father was gaoled in connection with a fencing payment dispute in Castlereagh. That incident coincided with her being taken into the HILL household where she is listed as SERVANT on the census. She lived from 1852 onwards as a single mother and two of her daughters were school teachers as was Melinda herself.  The Rochdale Cooperative Movement was certainly associated with the Coal Mines of the Illawarra by the 1890s and Melinda had written her poem by 1885 with the inclusion of the chorus known now to have originated in Rochdale in 1795. 

Be that as it may, this post includes an audio of an early 20th century poem by THOMAS WILFRED NATHAN. Peter Knox found THE LANE BELOW THE FLATS in a copy of the BULLETIN and in conjunction with members of the band PASPALUM, set it to the music below. 

THE LANE BELOW THE FLATS.

ROCHDALE MOVEMENT IN AUSTRALIA

BY 1885, Melinda has in some manner encountered the chorus of

The masters they are grumbling in country and in town
They want to starve the workers by keeping wages down.
Now in some parts of England the men were standing out
Against a great reduction and they’re right without a doubt.
In this happy country, man is treated like a slave
When the master gets the profit and the worker gets the work.
You’ve no right to be happy, no right to be well fed,
If they drop our wages, they must drop the price of bread.

 

By 1868, The ROCHDALE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IS well established in South Australia and  from records so far found, it existed in Illawarra and other NSW area.  

ROCHDALE LINKS;

• http://www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/asslh/balnave.html

PAPER BY PATMORE AND BALNAVE

EXTRACT

British immigrants played an important role in bringing the Rochdale principles to Australia. Retail 
co-operatives became a feature of coalmining districts such as the Hunter Valley, the Illawarra, the Lithgow Valley, Wonthaggi in Victoria and Collie in Western Australia. There were Rochdale co-operatives outside these areas. Particularly notable was the Adelaide society, which opened in 1868 and had 9,412 members by 1923.

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/aug/07/retail.uknews

 

• http://www.wcml.org.uk/timeline/1844/

ROCHDALE RIOTS

Thanks to MARK GREGORY’s research, we have been led to a 1795 verse from the ROCHDALE FOOD RIOTS in the UK. This forms the chorus and partial verse of Melinda’s  COLLIER’S STRIKE SONG which is written about an ILLAWARRA COAL STRIKE.

The ROCHDALE  BUROUGH WIDE CULTURAL TRUST WEBSITE informs us that they located the verse on a typewritten piece of paper in their archives which a long ago librarian had typed up. At this time, that’s all the details we have. Mark and his compatriots see an indication of the ongoing thread of working class folklorist tradition extending to Melinda’s song.

Below are some  articles referring to the situation in Rochdale in 1795.

Whitehall Evening Post (London, England), Saturday, July 11, 1795; Issue 7593

The MORNING POST and FASHIONABLE WORLD of AUGUST 6 1795 reported riots in which three people were killed  by the VOLUNTEERS. The riots continued after the letters had left.

The COURIER AND EVENING GAZETTE of AUGUST 11(LONDON ENGLAND) gave the names and details of the men killed. One was 80 years old and in no way connected with the riots and other by the name of FLETCHER was equally uninvolved. A boy had his arm broken and many more were wounded by the VOLUNTEER FENCIBLES.

FROM THE STAR Star (London, England), Monday, August 24, 1795; Issue 2189.