Battle of Parramatta

Pemulwuy
Nationality	Eora
Other names	Pimbloy, Pemulvoy, Pemulwoy, Bimblewove, Bumbleway
Occupation	Political leader
Known for	Resistance to British occupation of Sydney area
Movement	Aboriginal resistance
Children	Tedbury
Website	http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10389b.htm

Pemulwuy's War
Date 1790-1802 Location Botany Bay, Liverpool, Parramatta, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales Result British victory, Pemulwuy's death
Belligerents
British colonists	Aboriginal Australians
Commanders and leaders
Governor Arthur Phillip (1790 - 1792) Governor John Hunter (1795 - 1800) Governor Philip Gidley King (1800 - 1802)	Pemulwuy †

Battle of Parramatta
Date March 1797 Location Parramatta, New South Wales Result British victory, capture of Pemulwuy
Belligerents
British soldiers European settlers	Aboriginal Australians
Commanders and leaders
	Pemulwuy
Strength
	100 (est.)
Casualties and losses
13 soldiers killed 1 militia settler wounded	32 killed (est.) Pemulwuy captured

Pemulwuy (also known as, Pimbloy, Pemulvoy, Pemulwoy, Pemulwye) (c. 1750 – 2 June 1802) was an Aboriginal Australian man born around 1750 in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales. He is noted for his resistance to the European settlement of Australia which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. He is believed to have been a member of the Bidjigal (Bediagal) clan of the Eora people.. The Bidjigal people were the original inhabitants of Toongabbie and Parramatta in Sydney.

Pemulwuy lived near Botany Bay. Pemulwuy became a kadaicha man of his tribe. Pemulwuy would hunt meat and provide it to the food-challenged new colony in exchange for goods. However, in 1790 Pemulwuy began a twelve-year guerilla war against the British, which continued until his assassination.

When Pemulwuy grew into manhood he became Bembul Wuyan, which represents "the earth and the crow". According to historian Richard Green "he wasn't very impressed with the mix of cultures. He preferred that we stayed within our own peoples." . Another name for him was "Butu Wargun" which means "crow".

Pemulwuy was born with a turned eye. According to historian Eric Willmot:

Normally, a child that showed an obvious deformity would've been, well, people would have expected that child to be sent back, to be reborn again. It was generally thought that humans, like everything, came from the land. And that a woman, the actual act of conception, was a woman being infected by a child's spirit from the land. And that child grows within her. And so he was different and he became more different. He became better than everybody else. Whatever anyone else could do, Pemulwuy did it better. He could run further, he was one of the best, he could use a spear like no-one else could. And so, around him, was created an aura of difference. So much so that he was said to be a clever man. In an Aboriginal society, clever man is often a man who deals with the spiritual nature of things and sorcery even.

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