Black War

Black War
Part of the Australian frontier wars
An 1833 painting of Aboriginal Tasmanians attacking Milton Farm near Great Swanport
Date Mid-1820s–1832 Location Tasmania Result British control of Tasmania
Belligerents
British Empire	Aboriginal Tasmanians
Casualties and losses
Dead: 219 Wounded: 218 Total: 437[1]	600–900 dead

The Black War was the genocide of Aboriginal Tasmanians in Tasmania by British colonists from the mid-1820s to 1832.^[2]

British settlement spread rapidly over the traditional lands of the Aboriginal people. The conflict was fought largely as a guerrilla war by both sides; some 600 to 900 Aboriginal people and more than 200 British colonists died.^[3][4] Scholars classify the event as an instance of settler colonialism and an instance of genocide against Indigenous peoples. The author of the concept of genocide, Raphael Lemkin, considered Tasmania the site of one of the world's clear cases of genocide^[5] and Hughes has described the loss of Aboriginal Tasmanians as "the only true genocide in English colonial history".^[6]