Windradyne
Sign in to saveWindradyne ( 1800 – 21 March 1829) was an Aboriginal warrior and resistance leader of the Wiradjuri nation, in what is now central-western New South Wales, Australia; he was also known to the British settlers as Saturday. Windradyne led his people in the Bathurst War, a frontier war between his clan and British settlers.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Place of birth
- Australia
- Place of death
- Bathurst
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- date of birth
- 1800-01-01
- date of death
- 1829-03-21
- cause of death
- disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
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11 sectionsContents
- Description
- British settlement
- First contact
- Bathurst War
- Hostilities
- Peace
- Death
- Commemoration
- See also
- Notes
- References
Windradyne ( 1800 – 21 March 1829) was an Aboriginal warrior and resistance leader of the Wiradjuri nation, in what is now central-western New South Wales, Australia; he was also known to the British settlers as Saturday. Windradyne led his people in the Bathurst War, a frontier war between his clan and British settlers.
==Description== Although only limited information about Windradyne is available, mainly from the contemporary British accounts, it is possible to put together an approximate description of the man.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Windradyne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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