Bound for the relief of the British base at Gibraltar, which was under siege by France and Spain, HMS Royal George of 108 guns was awaiting sailing orders on a fine summer's morning in 1782, part of a large fleet assembled at the Spithead anchorage off Portsmouth.
On 7 December 2018, The Guardian's Australian edition published an article headed 'Aboriginals stood with Jews against the Nazis – we have a long history together'.
In his Kol Nidrei 5778 sermon, a Melbourne rabbi claimed that Yorta Yorta elder William Cooper's was "the only known private protest anywhere in the world against the Nazi regime following Kristallnacht".
