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The Vandemonian war, the secret history of Britain's Tasmanian invasion, Nick Brodie

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The Vandemonian war, the secret history of Britain's Tasmanian invasion, Nick Brodie

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsplatesmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Vandemonian war

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Nick Brodie

Sub title

the secret history of Britain's Tasmanian invasion

Summary

The Vandemonian War had many sides and shades, but it was fundamentally a war between the British colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and the Aboriginal people who lived in political and social contradiction to that colony. The Vandemonian War tells the largely untold story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen's Land deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed convicts and mercenaries. In the 1820s and 1830s the British deliberately pushed the Aboriginals out, driving them to the edge of existence. Far from localised fights between farmers and hunters of popular memory, this was a war of sweeping campaigns and brutal tactics, waged by military and paramilitary forces subject to a Lieutenant Governor who was also Colonel Commanding. The British won the Vandemonian War and then discretely and purposefully concealed it

Target audience

adult

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