Black War
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title:
Black War
text:
The Black War was a period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Tasmanians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832 that precipitated the near extermination of the indigenous population. The conflict was fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides; some 600 to 900 Aboriginal people and more than 200 British colonists died. When a British penal settlement was established in Tasmania in 1803, the Aboriginal population was 3,000 to 7,000 people. Until the 1820s, the Britis
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description:
Period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War
date created:
2004-02-27T16:13:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T05:56:32Z
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