History of Australia of the Corps soon became involved in the corrupt and lucrative rum trade in the colony. In the Rum Rebellion of 1808, the Corps, working closely with the newly established wool trader John Macarthur, staged the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, deposing Governor William Bligh and instigating a brief period of military rule in the colony prior to the arrival from Britain of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810. Macquarie served as the last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social and economic development of New
The Second of May 1808 to Madrid. A further restoration was completed between 2007 and 2008. The 1961 film "The Happy Thieves" features a plot to steal this painting from Prado. The Second of May 1808 The Second of May 1808, also known as The Charge of the Mamelukes (in Spanish: "El 2 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid", or "La lucha con los mamelucos" or "La carga de los mamelucos"), is a painting by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It is a companion to the painting "The Third of May 1808" and is set in the Calle de Alcalá near Puerta del Sol, Madrid,