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Latitude
-34.74958055
Longitude
149.7226804
Start Date
1839
End Date
1850

Description

In 1838 due to 'outrages' on the recently opened overland route from Sydney to Port Phillip (Melbourne) through Aboriginal country and to the north, Governer Gipps increased numbers of Mounted Police recruited from the military, and established more bases for them along the 3 major overland routes north, west and south. In the Australasian Chronicle on 22 Nov 1839 Major Nunn, the Commandant of the Mounted Police, reported on the locations and numbers of police, saying that their establishment had been complete, with the proviso that Wellington, Mudgee, Yalbreth and Yass were temporarily withdrawn due to exhorbitant costs. This was a precursor to the bloodiest decade of the Australian Wars, the 1840s.

Sources

ID
t1c290

Extended Data

location note
Location of town only, not the station/barracks/stables specifically.
date note
Date is from publication of this report, shortly after the 1838 announcement of increased police presence, to the end of the military mounted police force (1850 according to the NSW Police website https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/about_us/history). The military mounted police were founded in 1825. These locations are likely to have continued to have a police presence after 1850.
division
Third Division
officers
1
mounted troopers
9
dismounted troopers
1