The Sydney wars : conflict in the early colony 1788-1817 / Stephen Gapps.

Collection type	Library
Author	Gapps, Stephen, author.;
Call Number	355.00994 G211
Document type	Monograph
Year	2018. 2018. 018.
Pagination	viii, 319 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher	NewSouth Publishing, NewSouth Publishing,
Note	Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information) Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-307) and index (pages 308-319 pages) The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians--described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist--around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817. The Sydney Wars she ds new light on how British and Aboriginal forces developed military tactics and how the violence played out. Analysing the paramilitary roles of settlers and convicts and the militia defensive systems that were deployed, it shows that white settlers live d in fear, while Indigenous people fought back as their land and resources were taken away. Stephen Gapps details the violent conflict that formed part of a long period of colonial strategic efforts to secure the Sydney basin and, in time, the rest of the continent.-- Tertiary/Undergraduate. General.
Place made	Sydney, NSW : Sydney, NSW :

Abstract

Introduction: A savage and unfeeling enemy -- 1. This state of petty warfare: January 1788-April 1789 -- 2. Men, women, and children, lying dead: April 1789-December 1790 -- 3. An open war: 1791-96 -- 4. This sort of war: 1797-1802 -- 5. A pre-concerted p lan: 1802-13 -- 6. Kill all the whites before them: 1814-March 1816 -- 7. Strike them with terror: April 1816-17 -- Epilogue: Vengeance still smoulder.