Australian frontier wars
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The Australian frontier wars were the violent conflicts between Indigenous Australians and mostly British settlers from the colonial period of Australia to at least 1928.
New South Wales Mounted Police engaging Aboriginal warriors during the Waterloo Creek massacre of 1838
"Night Attack by Blacks", monotone painting by Livingston Hopkins
Indigenous group on the banks of the River Torrens, 1850
Aboriginal warrior
Pemulwuy
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Pemulwuy was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug Nation, an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales. One of the most famous Aboriginal resistance fighters in the colonial era, he is noted for h
Australian frontier wars
…being speared in 1790. He did, however, authorise two punitive expeditions in December 1790 after his huntsman was killed by an Indigenous warrior named Pemulwuy, but neither was successful. During the 1790s and early 19th century the British occupied areas along the Australian coastline. These settlements…
Engraving of Pemulwuy, 1804