That's very interesting Pete, some people give the impression that the Eureka Stockade was just a bunch of hot heads, but there was a lot more to it than that as you know, including legal challenges in the court to what the government was trying to impose, but things came to a head before that leading to the battle. The miner's legal battle was eventually won after the stockade and things were changed, which justified their challenge.

I don't think there would be too many that had past relatives who fought at the Stockade, something to be proud of.

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