Sheep driven off Leake’s Bluff Range run and Aboriginal people shot, 13 May 1845

Date: 13 May 1845
Place: Bluff Range near Rivoli Bay
Sheep driven off Leake’s Bluff Range run. Edward Leake and six other men tracked the sheep to an Aboriginal camp ten miles away, where he was confronted by an Aboriginal man with a ‘pointed club’, he fired and wounded him. The party then fired two volleys and the Aboriginal people retreated.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Sheep driven off Leake’s Bluff Range run and Aboriginal people shot, 13 May 1845
    13 May 1845 — Bluff Range near Rivoli Bay
    Sheep driven off Leake’s Bluff Range run. Edward Leake and six other men tracked the sheep to an Aboriginal camp ten miles away, where he was confronted by an Aboriginal man with a ‘pointed club’, he fired and wounded him. The party then fired two volleys and the Aboriginal people retreated.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier