(3) Preparing for War
Gudyarra (war) and the Bicentennial of Martial Law, 2024 (3) - Preparing for War [1] (family album) January 2024. Windradyne is captured, beaten into submission breaking his ribs, and imprisoned for a month. The raids on stock and crops, which the Wiradjuri consider their right as ‘ the white men have driven away all the kangaroos and opossums and that black men must now have beef’, temporarily subside. Meanwhile pastoralists are moving further afield. William Lawson has been moving his sheep and cattle to his Mudgee holdings for greener pastures. After retiring from his position of Commandant of Bathurst in 1823 Lawson returns to his role as magistrate at Bathurst. [2] January and February 2024. Judge Advocate Wylde, whose holdings at Macquarie-Wambuul river has been previously attacked numerous times, is attacked again. He calls for urgent military action. February. Governor Brisbane is preparing his troops, calling for campaign equipment as well as ‘...