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Gudyarra : the first Wiradyuri war of resistance : the Bathurst war, 1822-1824 / Stephen Gapps.

Gudyarra : the first Wiradyuri war of resistance : the Bathurst war, 1822-1824 / Stephen Gapps.
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ISBN 9781742236711
Author Gapps, Stephen (author)
Title Gudyarra : the first Wiradyuri war of resistance : the Bathurst war, 1822-1824 / Stephen Gapps.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Books, 2021.
©2021.
Description ix, 276 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In mid-1824, the Bathurst district was under siege. Local Wiradjuri people had broken off contact with the English and vowed to kill all white men. Warriors raided outstations, killing people and stock with impunity while large warbands threatened stock-workers. Wealthy Sydney-based landholders clamoured for military intervention and threatened to abandon the Bathurst Plains entirely. Gudyarra (war) unearths what lead to this point, beginning with the settling of Wiradjuri lands by Europeans following Governor Macquarie's push to expand the colony west over the Blue Mountains to generate wealth from sheep and cattle. Stephen Gapps traces the guerrilla warfare by the Wiradjuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the counterattacks by the colonists and the expeditions led by armed settlers, Gudyarra provides an important new historical account of the Wiradjuri resistance. If any single frontier conflict has all the hallmarks of war, this is it.
Subjects Wiradjuri (Australian people) -- History
Bathurst Region (N.S.W.) -- History
New South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
Australia -- History -- 1788-1851
Australia -- Race relations -- 19th century
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