This news article reports on a series of violent encounters between Aboriginal people and colonists in the colony of New South Wales, breaking a period of relative peace that had lasted since about 1810. 

'Sydney', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (14 May 1814), 2

After a period of relative peace, raids and violence on and around the Hawkesbury Nepean River escalated again from 1814. Initially, Governor Macquarie ordered settlers to treat Aboriginal people ‘in every respect as Europeans’. However by 1816, with attacks increasing, Governor Macquarie commenced ‘the largest military campaign the colony had...

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'Sydney', The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (14 May 1814), 2

Hawkesbury Nepean and surrounds