Remembering the pervading terror of the Cobban expedition

By Callum Clayton-Dixon
Updated April 19 2018 - 2:58pm, first published April 18 2018 - 8:42am
Remembering the pervading terror of the Cobban expedition
Remembering the pervading terror of the Cobban expedition

In February 1838, Lieutenant George Cobban led a detachment of Mounted Police up from the Peel River onto southern New England. According to an article in the Sydney Gazette, the expedition aimed “to employ coercive measures” against local Aboriginal people, whose armed resistance efforts had “at length roused the attention of the Government”.

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