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9. Appin Massacre - Truth Be Told, 3 Brothers Production
In the early hours of 17 April 1816, British soldiers acting on written orders from Governor Lachlan Macquarie himself drove a camp of Dharawal people toward the edge of the Cataract Gorge, south west of Sydney. At least fourteen people were killed, their bodies decapitated and displayed in trees as a deliberate warning, with their heads carried back to Sydney for a colonial bounty of thirty shillings and a gallon of rum. This episode covers the Appin Massacre, one of the earliest documented massacres in Australian colonial history, ordered by a governor still remembered today on banknotes…
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