Chapter 12 Conclusions and Consequences
Further consideration of Napoleon’s purposes.
What Australia owes to British sea power.
Influence of the Napoleonic wars.
Fresh points relative to Napoleon’s designs.
Absence of evidence.
Consequences of suspicions of French intentions.
Promotion of settlement in Tasmania.
Tardy occupation of Port Phillip.
The Swan River Settlement.
The Westernport scheme.
Lord John Russell’s claim of “the Whole” of Australia for the British.
The designs of Napoleon III.
Australia the nursling of sea power.