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Mounted Police Reinforcements dispatched

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Colonist Attacks on the South Road
Type
Other
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Latitude
-36.165
Longitude
146.545
Start Date
1838-04-28
End Date
1838-04-28

Description

After the Faithfull Massacre, no Mounted Police were available in the area. Major Nunn who had lead campaigns against Wiradjuri in the Bathurst War was ordered to send Mounted Police, but they failed to apprehend anyone. "His Excellency there requests that you will make immediate arrangements for sending an officer of Mounted Police and as many troopers as can be spared from their duties, but not less than 10 in number, to the scene where this dreadful outrage took place."p327 Col Sec to Major J.W. Nunn, 28 April 1838 Instructions to Pursue murderers in Cannon, Michael (ed.) Historical Records of Victoria Vol 2A The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835-1839, Melbourne: Victorian Government Printing Office 1982"

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t1c2d3

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