Change and Continuity_Frontier Wars
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- 21st August 1770, Lieutenant James Cook claims the eastern coast of Australia for Britain.
- 25th January 1788, Captain Arthur Philip establishes a penal settlement at Sydney cove with 800 British convicts. The estimated Aboriginal population is several hundred thousand and there are no recorded encounters so far.
- The colonists started having violent interactions with the locals as they started taking more land. Foreign diseases killed roughly 70% of the indigenous population. In 1789, Aboriginal leader, Pemulwuy, started resisting the colonists and raiding their settlements.
- 1794-1813, After the colonists started farms on rivers, Aboriginals, led by Pemulwuy, began to resist the incursion of white settlers onto his peoples traditional lands. Theses wars were first acknowledged massacre of indigenous people.
- Pemulwuy and the local Darug people raided farms and resisted settlers for years, but soldiers were dispatched from the British Army in 1816. These troops patrolled the Hawkesbury Valley and ended the conflict by killing almost a hundred Indigenous Australians in a raid.
- Free settlers were brought to Australia, this meant much more land was taken from the Aboriginals. The colonisers finally crossed the Blue Mountains, which meant they were able to travel all over Australia, taking land and killing the local people.
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