People you meet along the way - Episode Two - Lieutenant John Gore

Terry Gallaway, a journalist, shares insights from his podcast focused on quirky historical items. He critiques the media's coverage of Australia Day 2025 and the vandalism of monuments, while discussing social media debates about the first fleet and Captain Cook. Gallaway highlights Cook's orders for humane treatment of indigenous people and recounts the actions of Lieutenant John Gore. He also touches on Gore's immigration to Australia and his family's legacy, promising more content ahead.

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Hello, I'm Terry Galloway, longtime journalist in newspapers, radio and television. On these podcasts, I hope to bring to you interesting, quirky historical items and behind the scenes look at some of the stories I covered. Over many years as a police and crime reporter, The Prime Minister's been asked to intervene with the A, B, C and other media outlets over the mediocre coverage afforded Australia Day 2025. There has also been widespread attacked on the nation's first league monuments and statues. Dedicated news watchers noted on social media that this year, radio and television news reports national and commercial made scant reference to Australia Day, but did report in depth of vandalism and the destruction of statues and monuments across the metropolitan areas of both Sydney and Melbourne. Several posts on X formerly Twitter have also referred to the people arriving on the first fleet as the other stolen generation, the hundreds of British and Irish prisoners transported to the new land. Fortunately, after being convicted of crimes such as the theft of a cloth valued at five shillings as well as the Royal Marines and their families sent to guard them. Expos have also noted the attacks on Captain Cook monuments, which blamed the famous navigator for crimes against the indigenous people he found at Botany Bay and other landing sites along the eastern coast of Australia. But documents, records, log books and other contemporary accounts held by the National Museum and the New South Wales State Library show that cook sailed under strict orders from King George III not to cause concern or harm to the aboriginals he might meet. Along the way. The king demanded that should he discover the legendary great southern land to chart its coasts, build an alliance with its people and get as much information as possible about the people and claim any useful land for Britain. Cook's Journals shows that he passed these instructions onto his crew, ordering them to endeavor by every means, to cultivate a friendship with the natives and to treat them with all imaginable humanity. That indicates the current history of hatred against Captain Cook is misplaced to save the least. Perhaps the protestors are targeting the wrong bloke. History shows the protest possibly could take aim at endeavor's. Third, Lieutenant John Gore, an American born in Virginia in 1730. He joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1726 and took his lieutenant's examination in 1760. Go is recorded as the first man to shoot dead, a person of married descent in an incident in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty when he argued with a married chief who mad off with his Royal Navy boat cloak, which cook labeled an overreaction to the seriousness of the crime. Committed Cook described gore as being redheaded and quick to temper. Gore later became the first man to shoot dead a kangaroo. Surely another moment in his history that could possibly sustain a protest cook and his expedition went ashore briefly on 13 occasions during endeavors voyage North to replenish freshwater and to search for food. After spending three weeks at Botany Bay landing, so at Cornell, where he records that before he left returning artifacts to the NRS as a sign of peace. Three months later, he landed at a perception island in Torres Strait and wrote in his journal, I Now Once More Hoisted English colors and in the name of his majesty. King George II took the possession of the hole eastern coast together with all the bays, harbors, rivers, and islands, situate upon the said coast. Disaster struck as Cape Tribulation is Cook sailed Homewood bound when endeavor struck the Great Barrier Reef holding the hole, forcing the crew to man the pumps to keep her afloat. Eventually cooked. Jury rigged the ship to enable her to sail into a river he named Endeavor at present Day Cooktown. He remained there for seven weeks while the crew carried out repairs. Botanist Joseph Banks and Daniel Cylinder collected flora samples and sought Gores marksmanship to shoot and kill the kangaroo to take back to Europe at his example of the local Fauna Cook also records in his journal, amiable and Peaceful discussions with the local Aborigines. Back in Britain, Lieutenant Gore signed on as Cook's second in command in HMS resolutions, voyage of 1776 from which the great navigator would never return speared to death in Hawaii. In retirement, gore received the sinecure of captain of the Royal Navy Hospital. The Greenwich Gore had one son also named John, who he referred to as the Youngman, and who he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of 11, describing him as baptized and educated by a private teacher. After sailing around the world, several time with other adventurers, gore Junior rose to the rank of captain and served with distinction during the Spanish War with peace and with Britain no longer requiring naval support, gore went on half paid, which he found onerous and insufficient to support his wife and family. He immigrated to Australia in 1834 as one of the nation's first free settlers, and took up the offer of land at Lake Bathurst 17 kilometers south of Goldman, where he established the Gilmore Station on 1,165 acres of land subsidized by a 300 pounds bonus for former naval officers at a cost of five shillings an acre leading him with 15 shillings change. In the reality, a free grant Gore and his family is the only direct link to the endeavor's crew to settle in Australia. In 1852, he received notice of his promotion, the rear admiral. He died a year later, soon after hearing of the death of his eldest son, Lieutenant Graham Gore with the Doom Franklin Expedition in the Arctic Circle. John Gore is buried in Admiral's Corner at St. John's Ang Church in Lake Bathurst, where 160 years later, rear Admiral David Holthouse, A-O-R-A-N, was also laid to rest. I'm Terry Galloway and there's more to come later on.