Sentence examples for frontier wars from inspiring English sources

From the frontier wars to the land rights movement, our fight against colonisation has only reinforced this bond.

Nelson says: "In terms of what are called the frontier wars... as you know I'm not a historian and I know [historian] Henry Reynolds and others certainly say there were frontier wars, my own view is that it is much more complex than that.

Retrieved from the refurbishment of Randwick Bowling Club, Groom repainted the roll with names of Aboriginal people and tribes killed in the frontier wars.

The Aboriginal resistance was longer and bloodier than the frontier wars in the US and New Zealand, but the Australian public knows virtually nothing about them.

After taking part in several frontier wars in the Cape Colony, Pretorius went on an exploratory trek in 1837; he left his farm permanently to settle in Natal the following year.

Most Voortrekkers were farming families from the eastern frontier region of the Cape Colony, and their departure is associated with the war against the Xhosa of 1835 (see Cape Frontier Wars), although the relationship is disputed.

TED, the California-cool brand of inspirational speakers with "ideas worth spreading", had reached its final frontier: war-torn Somalia.

Opponents of frontier war "recognition" by the memorial – Nelson included – argue no Australian-raised army units waged war against black people.

And disputes continue along the still unfixed India-China border, the site of a humiliating frontier war 50 years ago that India lost.India wants a stronger military deterrent.

But he never moved adequately on acknowledging the evils frontier war and the many other malevolent elements of Australian history that stemmed from invasion, violent dispossession and assimilation.

There have been decades of vigorous internal debate – between successive directors, historians, archivists and council members – about whether to reflect frontier war in the galleries of the memorial.