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Pinjarra massacre

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The Pinjarra Massacre, also known as the Battle of Pinjarra, was an attack that occurred at Pinjarra, Western Australia on a group of up to 80 Noongar people by a detachment of 25 soldiers, police and settlers led by Governor James Stirling in 1834. [1]

34 relations: Albany, Western Australia, Attorney-General of Western Australia, Bark (botany), Calyute, Corroboree, Darling Scarp, Edward Hugh Barron, Frederick Irwin, Fremantle, George Fletcher Moore, Guildford, Western Australia, Hamilton Hill, Western Australia, James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), John Septimus Roe, List of massacres in Australia, Maigo, Lanao del Norte, Massacre, Mia-mia, Noongar, North Dandalup, Western Australia, Pindjarup, Pinjarra, Western Australia, Richard Goldsmith Meares, Robert Menli Lyon, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Shotgun, Spear, The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, Thomas Peel, Western Mail (Western Australia), Whadjuk, Whiteman Park, Woomera (spear-thrower).

Albany, Western Australia

Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital.

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Attorney-General of Western Australia

The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice.

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Bark (botany)

Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants.

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Calyute

Calyute (fl. 1833-1840), also known as Kalyute, Galyute or Wongir, was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who was involved in a number of reprisal attacks with white settlers and members of other tribes in the early days of the Swan River Colony, in Western Australia.

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Corroboree

A corroboree is an event where Australian Aborigines interact with the Dreamtime through dance, music and costume.

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Darling Scarp

The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north-south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia.

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Edward Hugh Barron

Edward Hugh Barron (8 Aug 1796 - 23 Feb 1863), was a soldier and pioneer in the Swan River Colony.

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Frederick Irwin

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Chidley Irwin, KH (1788 – 31 March 1860) was acting Governor of Western Australia from 1847 to 1848.

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Fremantle

Fremantle is a major Australian port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River.

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George Fletcher Moore

George Fletcher Moore (10 December 1798 – 30 December 1886) was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite" (Cameron, 2000).

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Guildford, Western Australia

Guildford is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, 12 km northeast of the city centre.

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Hamilton Hill, Western Australia

Hamilton Hill is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia southwest of Perth's central business district.

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James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir James Stirling (28 January 179122 April 1865) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator.

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John Septimus Roe

John Septimus Roe (8 May 1797 – 28 May 1878) was the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia.

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List of massacres in Australia

The following is a list of massacres and mass murders that have occurred in Australia and its predecessors (numbers may be approximate).

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Maigo, Lanao del Norte

, officially the, is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Massacre

A massacre is a killing, typically of multiple victims, considered morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims.

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Mia-mia

A mia-mia is a temporary shelter made of bark, branches, leaves and grass used by some Indigenous Australians.

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Noongar

The Noongar (also spelt Nyungar, Nyoongar, Nyoongah, Nyungah, Nyugah, Yunga) are a constellation of peoples of Indigenous Australian descent who live in the south-west corner of Western Australia, from Geraldton on the west coast to Esperance on the south coast.

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North Dandalup, Western Australia

North Dandalup is a small town in the Peel region of Western Australia along the South Western Highway between Serpentine and Pinjarra.

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Pindjarup

The Binjareb, Pindjarup or Pinjareb is the name given to an Indigenous Australian people, now believed to be extinct, who once occupied part of the south-western region of Western Australia.

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Pinjarra, Western Australia

Pinjarra is a town in the Peel region of Western Australia along the South Western Highway, from the state capital, Perth and south-east of the coastal city of Mandurah.

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Richard Goldsmith Meares

Richard Goldsmith Meares (1780-1862) was an early landholder and public official at the Swan River Colony in Western Australia.

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Robert Menli Lyon

Robert Menli Lyon (1789–1874) was a pioneering Western Australian settler who became one of the earliest outspoken advocates for Indigenous Australian rights and welfare in the colony.

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Royal Scots Fusiliers

The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment) which was later itself merged with the Royal Scots Borderers, the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons) to form a new large regiment, the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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Shotgun

A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug.

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Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Thomas Peel

Thomas Peel (1793–1865)Alexandra Hasluck, '', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.

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Western Mail (Western Australia)

The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia.

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Whadjuk

Whadjuk, alternatively Witjari, are an indigenous Australian people of the Western Australian region of the Perth bioregion of the Swan Coastal Plain.

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Whiteman Park

Whiteman Park is a bushland area located north of Perth, Western Australia.

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Woomera (spear-thrower)

A woomera is a wooden Australian Aboriginal spear-throwing device.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinjarra_massacre

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