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Newspaper report of the massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin on 17 April 1816

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[Sydney Gazette, 11 May 1816, p2 (via Trove)]

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Appin Massacre

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Aboriginal Armed forces Victims of crime War

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Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

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Appin massacre

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Wallis, James

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Appin Massacre

As white settlement spread across the Cumberland Plain, dispossession lead to violence and assaults culminating in the events near Appin in 1816.

Aboriginal

Victims of crime

War

Armed forces

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser

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First newspaper published in Sydney, from 5 March 1803 until 20 October 1842.

Originally printed in a lean-to shed at the back of Government House, the newspaper moved to different premises in Macquarie Place in 1808 and then to a building on lower George Street in December 1810. In 1824 the printery moved again to a larger two storey building further south on George Street on the corner of Charlotte Place.

Appin massacre

Massacre of 14 members of the Dharawal people which occurred when Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered a punitive expedition to round up Aboriginal people thought to be responsible for conflict with settlers to the area.

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Wallis, James

English-born soldier and commander of the 46th Regiment which ran raids against Aboriginal people near Appin and Airds.

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