Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy

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Australians know Arthur Phillip as the first Governor of the colony of New South Wales. But few know the real story of this mercurial man. Arthur Phillip was once a career soldier, a mercenary and a spy for the British Empire long before he captained the First Fleet and founded Sydney. Through meticulous research, Michael Pembroke has came upon the amazing story at the back of Australia’s first Governor, Arthur Phillip. The story of Phillip’s life takes us through wars with Spain and France, battles, court martials, and the taking of Havana from the Spanish. In his 20s he married a wealthy widow (with a pre-nup agreement) and briefly became a gentleman farmer. The marriage ended in divorce, before this kind of thing existed in England, but Phillip then became a successful merchant in France and likely spy for England. In 1774 he became a paid mercenary for the Portuguese navy at the behest of the Admiralty – his enemy again was once Spain but now in South The united states. Upon his return to London some years later,the revolution in the American colonies triggered another war with France and then Spain as well. England faced the opportunity of its first invasion since 1588 and Phillip became the commander of a 74 gun ship with a crew of 600 men defending the channel. Phillip is revealed to have undertakensecret missions for the Admiralty all over his career and perhaps was once a number of the first to be part of the Secret Service. And in the end it is revealed that the establishment of the colonies in New South Wales were an extension of Phillips work for England. A trusted and strategic thinker who would makesure that England ruled the waves.

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