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Author O'Brien, Bob (Basil Philip)

Title Massacre at Eureka : the untold story / Bob O'Brien
Edition Revised edition
Published Ballarat, Vic. : Sovereign Hill Museums Association, 1998

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 WATERFT  994.57031 Obr/Mae 1998  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 176 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Contents Foreword / Dr. Bernard Barrett -- Author's preface -- Chronicle of events -- 'The Ballarat Riots' / Samuel Douglas Smyth Huyghue -- 1. Eureka lay before him -- 2. The reasons behind the uprising -- 3. The part the governors played -- 4. The tension mounts -- 5. Thirty-three days to disaster -- 6. The attack -- 7. Contemporary views of the massacre -- 8. The stockaders -- 9. The aftermath -- 10. A difference of opinion -- 11. The Irish after Eureka -- Appendix 1. Miners' deputation meets with governor -- Appendix 2. Uniforms of Eureka / Paul O'Brien -- Appendix 3. Children of Eureka -- Bibliography
Notes "including 'The Ballarat riots', an eye-witness account by Samuel Douglas Smyth Huyghue, and notes on military subjects by Paul O'Brien"
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 171-172
Subject Browning, G. (George)
Counihan, Noel, 1913-1986.
Huyghue, Douglas S., 1816-1891.
Eureka Stockade, 1854
Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Vic., 1854
Riots -- Australia -- Victoria -- Ballarat
SUBJECT Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004544
Victoria -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007556 -- 1851-1891
Author Huyghue, Douglas S., 1816-1891. Ballarat riots
Sovereign Hill Museums Association
ISBN 0909874190