The war of the black war

The Black War refers to the conflict between European immigrants and soldiers, mainly British, and the indigenous people called Tasmania in English, which occurred in Tasmania in southern Australia from 1804 to 1830.

The Black War is a literal translation of the English word "Black War". In fact, it is not accurate to call it "war" because the British government has not officially declared war, and the strength of the two sides is very different. Some historians think it is more appropriate to call it the Holocaust. Indigenous Australians immigrated from Southeast Asia and have lived there for 50,000 years. Since the 65,438+07th century, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and French have arrived in Australia one after another. /kloc-at the end of 0/7, the British began to immigrate to Australia. 1770, Britain claimed sovereignty over Australia. 17881On October 26th, the first group of immigrants led by British navigator arthur phillip settled in Sydney, and the British flag was raised in Sydney. Arthur phillip became an Australian Englishman. Captain matthew flinders circled Tasmania at 1798 and confirmed that it was an island.

In fact, the British colonial government has no intention of completely destroying the aborigines. Here is an example:

Arthur Philip, the first governor of New South Wales, a British colony, was attacked by aborigines, got a javelin and killed his subordinates, but he didn't retaliate. He still adopted the policy of softening aborigines and insisted that aborigines could be assimilated into white society. In order to show his ideas, when he left office, he also brought two aborigines to Britain to accept British civilization. One of them, Ben Nerong, was very famous at that time. After his academic success, he returned to New South Wales, Australia, dressed in British clothes, lived an English life, and once went out of white society. But because the British still think he is like a "gorilla in clothes", the natives regard him as an alien and ignore him no longer. As a result, he later drank and degenerated. In addition, the colonial government also set up the Commissioner for Indigenous Protection (English: Peotector of the indigens), trying to guide the indigenous people to give up hunting and let them settle down to run pastures or be employed by whites. Some clergy also tried to convert indigenous people to Catholicism.

However, the attitude of British immigrants is far from that of the government. Because aborigines hunt for a living, they sometimes kill white cattle and sheep, which conflicts with white people. White immigrants can kill aborigines for a sheep, killing aborigines for revenge, and killing a white man will kill more aborigines for revenge. White immigrants usually openly compare indigenous people to animals, such as monkeys and spiders. At that time, there was a popular saying among whites that "to solve the indigenous problem, arranging guns is more effective than any method of philanthropists."

Although the attitude of the British government towards indigenous people is different from that of farmers or people, there is one thing that the British government also agrees to seize indigenous land.

The Black War was only part of the conflict between Australian aborigines and whites. 1803, the British began to immigrate to Tasmania.

In Tasmania, European immigrants seized the land on the island, killed a large number of kangaroos and threatened the survival of indigenous people. Some people even kidnap, rape and kill indigenous people. The natives began to attack Europeans alone or in small numbers.

1804 in may, a group of colonial troops opened fire on the indigenous people who were hunting. Is considered the beginning of the black war.

1820, the conflict between the two sides reached its peak.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/830, the colonial governor decided to form a black line of thousands of white immigrants to drive the aborigines out of the jungle and isolate them to the corner of Tasman Peninsula in southeastern Tasmania, and the result ended in failure. Is regarded as the end of the black war.