The First Fleet was the first fleet of eleven ships which arrived in Australia in January 1788, carrying convicts, officers, marines and their families. They arrived at Port J â¦ ackson, now known as Sydney, New South Wales, to establish a convict colony.board the ships of the First Fleet were over 700 convicts, almost 200 soldiers (some with wives and families) and Captains Arthur Phillip and John Hunter.
The Sound of Silence  is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. The song was written by Paul Simon over the period of several months between 1963â1964.
The song, written in February of 1964, was The Sounds of Silence, the track that rocketed the duo to stardom. On New Year's Day of 1966, The Sounds of Silence reached number one in the United States. It is said that it took six months for Simon to write the lyrics-he only averaged one line per day.