frontier conflict
Boundary zone fighting
Frontier conflict refers to armed clashes, violence, and warfare that occur in contested border regions or territories being settled or colonized.
The term appears most often in discussions of colonial history, particularly violence between Indigenous peoples and settlers: The frontier conflicts of the nineteenth century shaped the modern nation.
In Australian historiography, it specifically denotes violence against Aboriginal peoples during British colonization.
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- guerilla warfareUnconventional combat by irregulars
- blood feudInherited cycle of retribution
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
territorial disputes · sovereignty claims · westward expansion · wagon trains · ethnic tensions · fortifications · no man's land · forced migration · ethnic solidarity · treaty violations · ambush tactics · cavalry raids · buffalo soldiers · last stand · militias · resource exploitation · annexation · indigenous resistance
frontier conflictpeaceful coexistence
Non-hostile international relations
frontier settlement · détente · cultural exchange · diplomatic resolution · trade relations
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