Jack of Cape Grim

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Detailed account of organised and armed attacks on settlers in the Western Port District by five Tasmanian Aborigines brought to Victoria by G.A. Robinson - Truganini, Matilda (Pyterrunner), Fanny (Planobeena), Jack (Tunnerminnerwait/Napoleon) and Robert Smallboy (Peevay); contact history and Aboriginal resistance in Tasmania and Victoria; work of Chief Protector and Assistant Protectors of Aborigines; capture, trial and execution of Aboriginal guerrillas.