Indigenous Australian bushranger and resistance leader
A retrospective portrait of Musquito, completed in the 1860s
Musquito (c.1780 – 25 February 1825) (also rendered Mosquito, Musquetta, Bush Muschetta or Muskito) was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader, convict hunter and outlaw based firstly in the Sydney region of the British colony of New South Wales and later in Van Diemen's Land.[1]
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Musquito (c.1780 – 25 February 1825) (also rendered Mosquito, Musquetta, Bush Muschetta or Muskito) was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader, convict...
behest of Aboriginal Australians who had participated in the capture of Musquito. Tedbury was an ally of John Macarthur and a frequent visitor to Elizabeth...
the archaic HMS Musquito, after the tropical insect, the Mosquito: HMS Musquito (1777) was a vessel in service in 1777. HMS Musquito (1794) was a 6-gun...
Germany) and Metropolis Records (2001, US). "Moscovite Musquito" was listed as "Muscoviet Musquito" on these reissues. In 2014, Dark Entries reissued the...
Hole Farm. His name was Musquito, and he was the leader of a group of refugee Palawa men and women called the "tame mob". Musquito convinced Kikatapula to...
have borne the name HMS Mosquito or the archaic form of the name, HMS Musquito. The de Havilland Mosquito was a high-speed aircraft manufactured between...
Kurdaitcha, who are also marked through deliberate damage to the foot Musquito a warrior of the Gai-Mariagal clan Tunnerminnerwait was an Australian aboriginal...
Alexander Pearce and Thomas Jeffrey, and tracker-turned-resistance leader Musquito. Jackey Jackey (alias of William Westwood) was sent from New South Wales...
"Crushed" (3:16) Dif Juz - "No Motion" (4:49) Clan of Xymox - "Muscoviet Musquito" (4:03) Dead Can Dance - "The Protagonist" (8:47) Lonely Is an Eyesore...
was that Aboriginal people were blameless for any hostilities, but when Musquito was hanged in 1825, a significant debate was generated which split the...
and bounty parties of settlers took vengeance. On the Indigenous side, Musquito led the Oyster Bay tribe against the settlers. Tarenorerer was another...
men led by Black Jack (who was reportedly Tongerlongeter's brother) and Musquito (who was an Aboriginal outlaw originally from Sydney), led a reprisal attack...
the Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy commissioned several vessels of the Musquito class and Firm class. These carried either naval long guns or carronades...
during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the two-vessel Musquito and Firm-class floating batteries, and some individual vessels such as...
– resistance fighter of the Ugarapul nation from South East Queensland Musquito (c.1780–1825) – resistance leader originally from Sydney, became a bushranger...
decade, but the plantation venture failed. Equiano met with George, the "Musquito king's son". Equiano left the Mosquito Coast in 1776 and arrived at Plymouth...
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