<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Casualties and losses </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1 dead, 1 injured </Td> <Td> 25--30 dead, unknown number injured </Td> </Tr> <P> The Pinjarra Massacre, also known as the Battle of Pinjarra, was an attack that occurred at Pinjarra, Western Australia on a group of up to 80 Noongar people by a detachment of 25 soldiers, police and settlers led by Governor James Stirling in 1834 . After attacks on the displaced Swan River Whadjuk people and depredations on settlers by a group of the Binjareb people led by Calyute had, according to European settlers, reached unacceptable levels, culminating in the payback killing of an ex-soldier, Stirling led his force after the party . Arriving at their camp, five members of the pursuit party were sent into the camp to arrest the suspects and the Aborigines resisted . In the ensuing melee, Stirling reported 15 killed (eleven names were collected later from Aboriginal sources); police superintendent Theophilus Tighe Ellis later died of wounds and a soldier was wounded . Stirling warned the tribe against payback killings an arranged a peace between the warring tribes, but Calyute continued to break it by raiding the Whadjuk until his demise . </P> <P> Robert Menli Lyon had commented on the fact that some of the soldiers from Tasmania would as soon shoot an Aboriginal as shoot a kangaroo and there had been Aboriginal payback attacks on settlers, including the killing of Hugh Nesbitt, a servant of Thomas Peel and the wounding of Edward Barron . Captain Frederick Irwin, the lieutenant governor in Stirling's absence, had inflamed the situation, adopting a soldier's attitude to crush a warlike group of Aborigines and reduce them to a state of subjection . </P>

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