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Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney
Boyce, Dean

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Boyce, Dean

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Dean Boyce is a historian

Defending colonial Sydney as Author

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Defending colonial Sydney

For more than a century, Sydney faced recurrent and often well-founded fears of raids and even invasion. The British Empire's enemies and rivals sent warships into the Pacific to annexe territories, and Sydney was a potentially desirable conquest. Fortress Sydney grew out of anticipated dangers that could not be ignored.