A captain in the British Navy who, after attempting to obtain the Aboriginals’ consent to rename their land to no avail, took their silence as lack of resistance and named their lands Western Australia in the name of the British government. The Port of Fremantle, where Molly, Daisy, and Gracie stop briefly on their way to the Moore River Native Settlement, is named for him.
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Captain Charles Fremantle Character Timeline in Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
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Chapter 2: The Swan River Colony
...group of white men to a nearby river. When Dayup and his fellow tribesmen met Fremantle—Captain of the “gengas” camped nearby—Fremantle led them to a river and began speaking to them...
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Dayup, unable to understand what Fremantle was saying, could only infer that the Captain was an “important man.” Fremantle attempted to...
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Pilkington describes a silent war between two captains—James Stirling and Charles Fremantle—who were both vying for the same swath of Nyungar land as they journeyed from England....
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