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Waterloo Creek massacre
The Waterloo Creek Massacre or Slaughterhouse Creek massacre refers to a clash between mounted police and indigenous Australians in January 1838.〔Historical Records Of Australia, (A6 to Minute No. 20 of 1839. )1839. 22 July. Depositions at inquiry re collision between mounted police under J.W. Nunn and aborigines〕 The events have been subject to much dispute due to conflicting accounts of what took place and specifically the number of fatalities. The interpretation of events at Waterloo Creek became part of the ongoing public debate in Australia during the late 1990s known as the history wars.
==The events==
It was at the end of a two-month expedition by a detachment sent from Sydney to track down the Namoi, Weraerai and Kamilaroi people who had killed five stockmen in separate incidents on recently established pastoral runs on the upper Gwydir River area of New South Wales. The mounted police, consisting of two sergeants and twenty troopers led by Major James Nunn, arrested 15 Aborigines along the Namoi River but released all but two, one of whom was shot whilst attempting to escape.〔Historical Records Of Australia p. 251.〕 The main body of Kamilaroi eluded the troopers, thus Major Nunn’s party along with two stockmen pursued the Kamilaroi for three weeks from present-day Manilla on the Namoi River north to the upper Gwydir River.〔Ryan p. 36〕 On the morning of January 26 in a surprise attack on Nunn’s party Corporal Hannan was wounded in the leg with a spear and subsequently four or five Aborigines were shot dead in retaliation.〔Ryan p. 36〕 The Aborigines fled down the river as the troopers regrouped, rearmed and pursued them led by the second in command Lieutenant George Cobban . Cobban's party found their quarry about a mile down the river now known as Waterloo Creek, where a second engagement took place.〔Ryan p. 36〕 The encounter lasted several hours, and no Aborigines were captured.〔Deposition of George Geddes McKenzie Cobban, 17 May 1839, Historical Records of Australia, series i, vol. XX,pp. 253–6.〕 It is this second clash where details of its occurrence contrast substantially.
There was an inquiry held on 22 July 1839 at the Merton Court house (New South Wales).〔Historical Records Of Australia p. 251.〕 There were no convictions and the matter was dropped. The only eyewitness accounts of this second engagement were provided to the judicial inquiry by Lieutenant Cobban and Sergeant John Lee.
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