Mount Cottrell massacre

Name: Mount Cottrell massacre
Start: 1836

1836 CE.

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The Mount Cottrell massacre involved the murder of an estimated 10 Wathaurung people near Mount Cottrell in the colony of Victoria in 1836, in retaliation for the killing of two European settlers, one of whom had been poisoning Indigenous Australians.

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