Additional locations and short descriptions of conflicts, where information is known, will be added to this list as time permits. Some of the main sources, that also refer to primary documents such as diaries, letters, government records etc., for information about conflicts that happened in New South Wales, include publications such as: ‘Appin Massacre‘, Grace Karskens, 2015, in Dictionary of Sydney at: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/appin_massacre The Australian Frontier Wars 1788–1838, John Connor, University of New South Wales Press, 2002 Baal Belbora, The End of the Dancing: The Agony of the British Invasion of the Ancient People of the Three Rivers–The Hastings, the Manning, and the Macleay in New South Wales, Geoffrey Blomfield, Alternative Publishing Co-Operative, 1986 Butcher’s Tree massacre near Brewarrina Mission, Muruwari People, at: https://www.muruwari.com.au/index.php?p=1_3 A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770–1850, Michael Organ, Aboriginal Education Unit, Wollongong University, 1990 ‘A History of Aboriginal Sydney’, University of Western Sydney at: https://www.historyofaboriginalsydney.edu.au/south-west/1810s A Hundred Years War: the Wiradjuri People and the State, Peter Read, Australian National University Press, 1988 Blood Revenge: Murder on the Hawkesbury, Lyn Stewart, Rosenberg Publishing, 2015 Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre, Katrina A Schlunke, Curtin University Books, Western Australia, 2005 Butcher’s Tree massacre near Brewarrina Mission, Muruwari People, at: https://www.muruwari.com.au/index.php?p=1_3 The First Frontier: the Occupation of the Sydney Region 1788–1816, Peter Turbet, Rosenberg, 2011 Historical Records of the Illawarra Region of New South Wales, Australia 1770–1855: A Chronologoical Guide to Sources and Events, Michael Organ and AP Doyle, 1995 ‘Hospital Creek Massacre’, Brewarrina Shire Council at https://www.brewarrina.nsw.gov.au/tourism/visitor-information/our-history/hospital-creek-massacre.aspx Narrandera Shire, Bill Gammage, 1986 ‘“no moral doubt …”: Aboriginal evidence and the Kangaroo Creek poisoning, 1847–1849’, Jane Lydon, Aboriginal History, 1996, 20, pp. 151–175 Our Original Aggression: Aboriginal Populations of Southeastern Australia 1788–1850, Noel Butlin, North Sydney, 1983 Passages to the North-west Plains: The Colonial Discovery and Occupation of East-Central New South Wales, 1817–26, (Incorporating an extended discussion of the armed conflict between Aborigines, settlers, and police in the Hunter Valley, 1825–26), Michael O’Rourke, Canberra, December 2009. Available at: https://www.mudgeehistory.com.au/earlysettlement/passages_p1.html (Click on “Next” at the bottom of each page to reach the next page). Report of the murder of the Chief … Continue reading Some Known Conflicts in New South Wales