Fact #136114
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Jack Donahue, a member of a bushranger gang known as The Wild Colonial Boys, is shot dead by a soldier, John Muckleston, following a shootout between bushrangers and troops at Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania. Donahue's life, exploits and death will inspire the writing of the folk song The Wild Colonial Boy some years later.
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