Captain Henry Wise, 40th Regiment, is the most famous of the soldiers who stormed the Eureka Stockade in 1854. His death rocked Ballarat to its core and, even today, debate rages about his character, his actions at the stockade, and who it was that fired the fatal shot.
Join Juliana in the season finale of "The Skeptical Historian Writes A Thesis" as she examines the short life of this famous officer and what lessons his death has for the ongoing study of Eureka.
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