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Clayton-Dixon, Callum 2019 Indigenous Research NAIDOC Lecture: The New England Frontier Wars University of New England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKqOIMNvUHs

Events in this conflict will be added as Australian Wars and Resistance research continues.

]]> 152.397,-30.444 #TLCMapStyle It is estimated that at least 30 Baanbay people were shot. In his book Eldershaw justified the massacre on the grounds that it instilled in the local Aboriginal people 'a mysterious and superstitious fear of the stupendous power of the white man', caused them to become 'harmless, tractable and subdued' and thus the 'barbarous and inhuman secret murders [of colonists], by poison or by some violent remorseless treachery, of which in preceding times I had so frequently heard and read, were now happily abolished' (Eldershaw 1854, p 74). Eldershaw's account is reproduced in Blomfield 1981, pp 85-91 and Elder 2003, pp 105-117.

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]]> 1841-05-01 1841-05-31 151.883,-30.067 #TLCMapStyle Uralla Times and District Advocate, 19 April 19, 1923, p 1). Clogher had a cavalry sword and was an excellent shot with pistols (Daily Examiner, October 28, 1942, p 1). There are various spellings of the name of the constable in the sources. Some use 'Clogher' while others use 'Clogger'. The name 'Constable Michael Cloggan' (Uralla Times and District Advocate, 19 April 19, 1923, p 1) appears to be a confusion of 'Clogher' with the name of the 'Coghlan' family in the area, and also the author of some of the anecdotes (Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate, 27/10/1939).

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]]> 1852-08-01 1852-08-31 152.418,-30.44 #TLCMapStyle The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser, 18 Sep 1852, p 3).
According to an article published in 1932, Major Parke led a group of colonists who shot a 'great number' of Aboriginal people in reprisal for the killing of the Meldrum family. The date given as '1856' in this article is most likely a misprint, as the murders occurred in 1852. 'In 1856 aboriginals attacked Meldrum's home and killed all the inmates with the exception of a baby who had been thrown against a wall and left there stunned. A man named Imray (or Emery), who had been out on the run shepherding sheep, on his return to the homestead found the bodies of the murdered people and also discovered the baby which had re covered and was lying beside a cat. The blacks who were responsible for the tragedy were tracked over the rough country and were discovered on a creek on the Macleay. A great number of them were shot by Major Parke and other residents of the district who had joined in the chase' (Dungog Chronicle: Durham and Gloucester Advertiser, 7 Jun 1932, p 4).
Indigenous historian Callum Clayton-Dixon summarised the sequence of events thus: 'Following the killing of several colonists in the Bald Hills area in August 1852, a group of Aboriginal people were chased to the edge of a sheer bluff south of Ebor and were either shot or pushed over the edge, probably both. Constable Michael Clogher and Major Edward Parke were two of the main perpetrators' (Clayton-Dixon 2019, p.138).

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]]> 1852-08-23 1852-09-30 151.801,-30.599 #TLCMapStyle Armidale Express of 23 June 1860, p 2: 'It is rumoured that parties from two stations in the police district of Armidale went out lately after the wild blacks, and so scared the latter that they are not likely to be heard of again near Armidale for some time to come.' According to historian, Callum Clayton-Dixon 2019, p.103, Aboriginal resistance was 'reduced significantly at this point'.

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]]> 1844-10-17 1844-10-17 151.628,-29.27 #TLCMapStyle CSIL, 4/2719, 46/5747 cited in Reece, 1974, p 187)

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