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Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 (Paperback)
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Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 (Paperback)
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From the Swan River to the Hawkesbury, and from the sticky Arnhem
Land mangrove to the soft green hills of Tasmania, this book
describes the major conflicts fought on the Australian frontier to
1838. Based on extensive research and using overseas frontier wars
to add perspective to the Australian experience, The Australian
Frontier Wars 1788-1838 will change our view of Australian history
forever. Over the last thirty years, Australians have become
increasingly aware that violence accompanied the colonisation of
their continent. Historians have shown that the armed conflicts
between Aborigines and British settlers and soldiers, though small
in scale and sporadic in nature, can truly be described as 'wars'.
However, a gap remains at the heart of our understanding of the
Australian frontier: the actual warfare, and the weapons and
tactics used to fight it, remain poorly understood. The Australian
Frontier Wars is the first book-length military history of frontier
conflict in Australia. Covering the first fifty years of British
occupation in Australia, this book examines in detail how both
sides fought on the frontier. It shows how Aborigines developed a
new form of warfare that diffe
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