frontier wars
Territorial expansion battles
Frontier wars are armed conflicts occurring at the edges of expanding settlement or colonial territory, typically between indigenous peoples and colonizers or settlers.
The term appears most prominently in Australian history, referring to violence between Aboriginal Australians and British colonists: The frontier wars lasted over a century.
Similar conflicts occurred across the Americas and other colonized regions.
- French and Indian War1750s colonial North American conflict
- King Philip's WarColonial-indigenous New England conflict
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- colonial expansionExtending control over territories
- XhosaBantu language with clicks
ethnic cleansing · colonialism · displacement · broken treaties · guerrilla warfare · indigenous sovereignty · indigenous resistance · resistance fighters · last stand · manifest destiny · territorial claims · stolen land · survival · historical trauma · oral histories · treaty violations · encroachment · scorched earth
- Indigenous AustraliaAboriginal art, Dreamtime, dreaming, corroboree, didgeridoo
- South African Historyapartheid, Nelson Mandela, Mandela, Soweto, Sharpeville
- Indian WarsKing Philip's War, Little Bighorn, Wounded Knee, Custer's Last Stand, Sitting Bull
- Xhosa historyXhosa, tribal lands
- Colonial AustraliaBotany Bay, penal colonies, convicts, penal colony, colonial settlement
- Southern AfricaZulu, Kruger National Park, Angola, Shona, Zambia
frontier warscivil war
Domestic armed conflict
civil strife · internal conflict · urban warfare · civil unrest · revolution
frontier warscivil war
Domestic armed conflict
conventional warfare · total war · sectarian conflict · religious wars · trade wars
frontier warspeaceful coexistence
Non-hostile international relations
peace · treaty-making · diplomacy · peace treaties · negotiated settlement