RE: A country founded by felons. It was Australia right?
Both Australia and America were founded by men of conviction :)
But kidding aside, South Australia was founded by free settlers. The plan for the colony was that it would be the ideal embodiment of the best qualities of British society, that is, no religious discrimination or unemployment and, as it was believed that this would also result in very little crime within the small cohort of initial settlers, no professional police were sent.
I never knew that. Thats a shock. I never knew half the things you geniuses on Free Republic tell me lol. Make me feel like an idiot. Is there any truth to the story that convicts were sent there
After the Battle of the Little Big Horn and Custer's Last Stand, Sitting Bull fled north across the border with his tribe. According to legend, they were rounded up peacefully by five (yes, FIVE) Canadian Mounties.