Hospital Creek Massacre
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hospital-creek-massacre-268-7567959
title:
Hospital Creek Massacre
text:
The Hospital Creek Massacre refers to a retaliatory mass-slaughter of Indigenous Australians in 1859 in rural New South Wales at Hospital Creek about 10km north-east of Brewarrina. There are differing accounts of this event, but one alleges that a white stockman at Walcha Hut, abducted an Aboriginal woman. The stockman was warned by the woman's fellow tribe members to release her. When the stockman refused to release the woman, they were both killed. White settlers retaliated by shooting a large
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Massacre in New South Wales, Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_Creek_Massacre
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date modified:
2024-03-26T08:59:10Z
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