Gallipoli, Tobruk, Kokoda Trail, and Long Tan... names that echo down the ages for most Australians.
But how many of us know of our first overseas military adventure? And no, it wasn’t the Boer War (in what is now South Africa) at the time of Federation in 1901.
It was, instead, one of the last great military engagements of the Victorian Age, involving such heroic figures as Charles George 'Ch...