Eureka - The Unfinished Revolution (5 page)

Swearing Allegiance to the ‘Southern Cross’ by Charles Doudiet. (Art Gallery of Ballarat)

Members of the 12th Foot (
left)
and 40th Foot Gold Escort (
right).
(Lindsay Cox)

Eureka Slaughter
by
Charles Doudiet. (Art Gallery of Ballarat)

The military attack on the Eureka Stockade, 3 December 1854. (The Eureka Stockade by Beryl Ireland/La Trobe Picture Collection/State Library of Victoria)

The Stockade wall is breached by foot soldiers of the 12th and 40th Regiments. (
Eureka Stockade Riot by J. B. Henderson/La Trobe Picture Collection/State Library of Victoria)

Members of the Independent California Rangers’ Revolver Brigade standing their ground during the attack on the Stockade.
(Gregory Blake)

Pikeman Hafele’s terrier is never far from his side, even at the height of the attack on the Stockade.
(Gregory Blake)

Father Smyth’s Catholic chapel, Bakery Hill, Ballarat. (Eugene von Guerard/ La Trobe Picture Library/State Library of Victoria)

Purportedly one of the three women who sewed the Southern Cross flag, the redoubtable Anastasia Hayes.
(Public Record Office Victoria, © State of Victoria)

Concerned citizens of Melbourne organise a public meeting on 5 December 1854, ostensibly to discuss the protection of the city following the rebellion.
(John Ferres/ State Library of Victoria)

The crowd celebrates the acquittal of a Ballarat rioter accused of High Treason.
(State Library of Victoria)

Prominent Melburnian Judge Redmond Barry, who presided over the Scobie murder trial and the Eureka Stockade treason trials.
(La Trobe Picture Collection/State Library of Victoria)

One of the ‘Tipperary Mob’, Irishman Peter Lalor, Eureka Stockade leader and later long-serving Victorian State politician.
(La Trobe Picture Collection/ State Library of Victoria)