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Could Ned Kelly have become an even greater hero and nationalist figure for Aust hist had he not been killed alongside his gang at the Glenrowan Inn in June 1880 ? IIRC Ned and his gang, when they held up and took hostage the entire town, were intending to derail a trainload of armed police who'd been dispatched from Melbourne to hunt them down, but the cops were alerted by 1 schoolteacher, I believe, whom the gang had released based on his story that he had to urgently visit his pregnant wife. Kelly was also apparently intending to rally his supporters from around the local countryside as part of his intentions, intending, as some historians have alleged, to implement his plan to declare a Republic of North-eastern Victoria based on an earlier manifesto he'd drafted when he baled up the Bank of NSW in Jerrilderie in 1879. Hence, the infamous shootout at the Glenrowan Inn resulted.

WI the Kelly gang had managed to successfully derail the police train without the cops being informed ? Would they then have successfully been able to incite an insurrection against govt authority by rallying their supporters from neighbouring country towns, and stating their intention to implement Ned's Jerrilderie Manifesto ? How much of an impact would this rebellion have had on Aust hist ?
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