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Waterloo Creek : the Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Milliss, Roger, 1934-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sydney : UNSW Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Waterloo Creek Region (N.S.W.) > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Crimes against > Australia > Waterloo Creek Region (N.S.W.)
Massacres > Australia > Waterloo Creek Region (N.S.W.)
New South Wales > History > 1788-1851.
Gipps, George, > Sir.
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians > Crimes against.
Massacres.
New South Wales.
Iwi taketake.
1788-1899
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A thousand blacks out there
  • 2. They who said no
  • 3. How the North was won
  • 4. The land march to the Kindur
  • 5. Bourke's unfinished business
  • 6. Paterson's curse
  • 7. Major Nunn's campaign
  • 8. Enter Governor Gipps
  • 9. A season of alarms
  • 10. The Massacre at Myall Creek
  • 11. An inquiry on the Big River
  • 12. Chill winds from Bass Strait
  • 13. The heads of a plan
  • 14. Scott's law
  • 15. A murderous spirit abroad
  • 16. Who owns the land?
  • 17. The Queen against Kilmeister
  • 18. Jack Ketch's Seven
  • 19. Mr Mayne goes bush
  • 20. The cover-up takes shape
  • 21. The Three Wise Men of Merton
  • 22. Acting under orders
  • 23. Lord John's requiem
  • Epilogue. Ghosts of the Gwydir
  • Postscript. The Battle of Endeavour Lane
  • Appendix. 'We're planting a seed'.