Eureka Stockade

British  

noun

1. a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament

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Example Sentences

Grabbing timber from mine shafts and horse carts, they built a fort, the Eureka Stockade.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

This, however, I assert as a matter of fact, that the Council of the Eureka Stockade never gave or hinted at any order to stop the usual work on the gold-field.

From The Eureka Stockade by Carboni, Raffaello

The Eureka Stockade is not the place for me.”

From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.

They keep green the memory of the men who fell at the Eureka Stockade, and Peter Lalor has his monument.

From Following the Equator, Part 3 by Twain, Mark

And is it for this damned life we praise the god-like spirit that died At Eureka Stockade in the Roaring Days with the days when the world was wide?

From In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Lawson, Henry