Gudyarra - The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance - The Bathurst War, 1822-1824

Gapps, Stephen
Gudyarra - The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance - The Bathurst War, 1822-1824

Gudyarra - The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance - The Bathurst War, 1822-1824

Gapps, Stephen

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In mid-1824, the Bathurst district was under siege. Local Wiradjuri people had broken off contact with colonists and vowed to kill all invading white men. Warriors raided outstations, killing people and stock with impunity while large warbands threatened convict stock-workers who either fled or cowered in their huts. Wealthy Sydney-based landholders clamoured for military intervention and threatened to abandon the Bathurst Plains entirely.

Gudyarra (war) unearths what led to this point, beginning with the occupation 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.

Award-winning author Stephen Gapps traces the coordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradjuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of settlers and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradjuri women and children, Gudyarra provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradjuri resistance.

If any single frontier conflict has all the hallmarks of war, this is it.

Author:   Gapps, Stephen
Publisher:   NewSouth Publishing
ISBN:  

9781742236711


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 November 2021
Bind Format:   Paperback
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In mid-1824, the Bathurst district was under siege. Local Wiradjuri people had broken off contact with colonists and vowed to kill all invading white men. Warriors raided outstations, killing people and stock with impunity while large warbands threatened convict stock-workers who either fled or cowered in their huts. Wealthy Sydney-based landholders clamoured for military intervention and threatened to abandon the Bathurst Plains entirely.

Gudyarra (war) unearths what led to this point, beginning with the occupation 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.

Award-winning author Stephen Gapps traces the coordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradjuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of settlers and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradjuri women and children, Gudyarra provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradjuri resistance.

If any single frontier conflict has all the hallmarks of war, this is it.

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Author:   Gapps, Stephen
Publisher:   NewSouth Publishing
ISBN:  

9781742236711


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 November 2021
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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