This Government Order appoints Major James Morisset as Commandant at Bathurst.

'Government General Orders' dated 19 November 1823, in Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, SRNSW [4/242], 196

The establishment of the colonial settlement of Bathurst on Wiradjuri country in 1815 and the expansion of the colony over the Bathurst Plains led to war between the Wiradjuri people and the colonisers in the 1820s. Bathurst and the neighbouring settlements were administered by Commandants, who tried various and unsuccessful...

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'Government General Orders' dated 19 November 1823, in Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, SRNSW [4/242], 196

Central Western NSW Conflict