Published: March 03, 2019
At least 14 Aboriginal men, women and children were shot and killed in the Appin massacre. Countless others fell to their deaths in the gorge below
In the small hours of 17 April 1816, Aboriginal families were asleep in their camp at the top of the Cataract River gorge. Close by the 46th Regiment fanned out in a line and crept through the bush, on the orders of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It was dark and quiet, until they heard the cry of a child.
The only written account of what happened next is by the man who led the killings, Captain James Wallis.
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