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The Sydney Wars - Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 (Paperback)
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The Sydney Wars - Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 610
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Described by one early colonist as 'this constant sort of war', The
Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between
Europeans and Aboriginal Australians around greater Sydney. Telling
the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and
original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account
of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the
arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded
conflict in the area in 1817. The Sydney Wars sheds new light on
how British and Aboriginal forces developed military tactics and
how the violence played out. Analysing the paramilitary roles of
settlers and convicts and the militia defensive systems that were
deployed, it shows that white settlers lived in fear, while
Indigenous people fought back as their land and resources were
taken away. Stephen Gapps details the violent conflict that formed
part of a long period of colonial strategic efforts to secure the
Sydney basin and, in time, the rest of the continent.
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