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Who was First Nations resistance fighter Musquito? A historian investigates a legend
Musquito, drawn by Nicolas-Petit Martin Allen & Unwin
Not much is known about the Aboriginal man known as “Musquito” (c.1780–1825). This does not make him unusual among the Aboriginal people who faced the first 40 years of British colonisation of eastern Australia. But in three respects, his life is noteworthy.
Review: Musquito: a real story of a legendary colonial warrior – Naomi Parry Duncan (Allen & Unwin)
One is that the French naturalist Nicolas-Martin Petit drew him in 1802 – the basis of
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