It was revolution - small in size, but greatly politically; it was a strike against injustice and oppression. It was the Barons and John over again; it was Hampden and ship-Money; it was Concord and Lexington; small beginnings, all of them, but all of them great in political results, all of them epoch-making . . . It adds an honourable page to history; the people know it and are proud of it. They keep green the memory of …
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…immediate superior that 'the miners had to be taught a lesson'. Rede had a network of spies in the stockade so that he could choose the right moment to attack. The main people in the Eureka Stockade were Scobie, Martin, the Magistrate, the diggers and Governor Hotham all played a major role in the stockade. There was no great outcome from the Eureka Stockade. Nearly all it achieved was a page or two in history.