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The Vandemonian War (Paperback)
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Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of
the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns.
Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was
conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen
succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for
nearly two centuries. The Vandemonian War had many sides and
shades, but it was fundamentally a war between the British colony
of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and those Tribespeople who lived in
political and social contradiction to that colony. In The
Vandemonian War acclaimed history author Nick Brodie now exposes
the largely untold story of how the British truly occupied Van
Diemen's Land deploying regimental soldiers and special forces,
armed convicts and mercenaries. In the 1820s and 1830s the British
deliberately pushed the Tribespeople out, driving them to the edge
of existence. Far from localised fights between farmers and hunters
of popular memory, this was a war of sweeping campaigns and brutal
tactics, waged by military and paramilitary forces subject to a
Lieutenant Governor who was also Colonel Commanding. The British
won the Vandemonian War and then discretely and purposefully
concealed it. Historians failed to see through the myths and lies -
until now. It is no exaggeration to say that the Tribespeople of
Van Diemen's Land were extirpated from the island. Whole societies
were deliberately obliterated. The Vandemonian War was one of the
darkest stains on a former empire which arrogantly claimed
perpetual sunshine. This is the story of that fight, redrawn from
neglected handwriting nearly two centuries old.
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