Clash with Lieutenant Field’s Volunteer Rescue Party near the ‘Hornet’s Nest’, 13 May 1841

Date: 13 May 1841
Place: Near the ‘Hornet’s Nest’
Ten ‘gentlemen volunteers’ set out to recover Inman and Field’s sheep. Arriving at the ‘Hornet’s Nest’ on 13 May, they were confronted by a party of two to three hundred Aboriginal people. A contest lasted for thirty minutes before the volunteer party retreated.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Clash with Lieutenant Field’s Volunteer Rescue Party near the ‘Hornet’s Nest’, 13 May 1841
    13 May 1841 — Near the ‘Hornet’s Nest’
    Ten ‘gentlemen volunteers’ set out to recover Inman and Field’s sheep. Arriving at the ‘Hornet’s Nest’ on 13 May, they were confronted by a party of two to three hundred Aboriginal people. A contest lasted for thirty minutes before the volunteer party 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