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Fine. 8vo. Signed & Inscribed by the Author 284pp, bibliography, endnotes, appendices, bw & few col ills. Pictorial card. SIGNED with personalised inscription by author (Frank Uhr) on title page. The story of one of the most audacious stands by Aborigines against the migration of European sttlers. Acions againts the pastoralists were engineered by father and son, Moppy and Multuggerah. In 1843 this culminated in an ingenious ambush and one of the first solid defeats of white settlement in Queensland. The battle at Mount Table Top, 128km west of Brisbane, astounded many at the time. The response was likely the largest action of the frontier wars: the assembly of over 100 officers, soldiers, police and armed settlers drawn from hundreds of square kilometres. Despite their best efforts the resistence persisted and managed a few more victories. A fort was established to protect travellers and brutal skirmishes, massacres, raids and robebries trickled on for decades.