John Hunter (29 August 1737 – 13 March 1821) was an officer of the Royal Navy who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second governor of New South Wales Australia and served as such from 1795 to 1800.Both a sailor and a scholar he explored the Parramatta River as early as 1788 and was the first to surmise that Tasmania might be an island. As governor he tried to combat serious abuses by the military in the face of powerful local interests led by John MacArthur.
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1800-09-28
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1795-09-11
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American Revolutionary War, Raid on Rochefort, Napoleonic Wars, Battle of the Plains of Abraham, Glorious First of June, French Revolutionary Wars, Battle of Dogger Bank (1781), Battle of Cape Spartel, Seven Years' War, Great Siege of Gibraltar
