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What really took place during those days of the siege at Glenrowan?
Was this the time the Kellys had planned the “Rise”, the declaration, the start of the fight for the “Republic of the North-East’? There is much talk in Glenrowan still, that Kelly Gang sympathisers had planned to ride to Melbourne and kidnap [...]

In the early morning light of June 28, 1880, Ned emerged from the bush near the The Glenrowan Inn to make his famous and extraordinary ‘Last Stand’.The Siege of Glenrowan really began when Joe Byrne killed the police informer Aaron Sherritt. The Kellys had expected a quick and decisive response from the police, and [...]

Aaron Sherritt, born 1855, was a strong, athletic youth with an outgoing personality and said to be second only to Ned Kelly in toughness.Aaron attended the same rural Catholic school in the Woolshed Valley near Beechworth as did Joe Byrne, and the two boys were instantly drawn to one another. Apart from a romance with [...]