What You Need to Know About the Bathurst War (1822-1824)
Relations between the settlers and the Aboriginals of the Bathurst region were remarkably good for a few years ... but then the arrival of 100,000 sheep and cattle changed that. Skirmishes began in 1822 and then escalated.
By mid 1824 the newspapers in Sydney were referring to the violence as a war. Governor Thomas Brisbane declared martial law and sent in the troops.
It became a conflict of vengeance but was its origin a dispute about land or food?
What is too often left out of the telling of the Bathurst War is the remarkable peace conference just a few months after martial law declared.
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