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

Extinction Rebellion is the Anthropocene’s answer to the UK working class Chartists, the US Declaration of Independence and the defenders of the Eureka Stockade.

From The Guardian

A host of alternative dates for Australia Day have been proposed, including 1 January, the day the modern nation-state of Australia came into being in 1901; 25 April, Anzac Day, commemorating the 1915 landing by Australian troops at Gallipoli, part of the British Expeditionary Force’s unsuccessful invasion of that peninsula during the first world war, and; 3 December , the date of the 1854 Eureka Stockade, an uprising by goldminers against repressive colonial taxation and regarded by many as the birth of Australian popular democracy.

From The Guardian

Gold miners staged the failed Eureka stockade rebellion against British taxation in 1854.

From Reuters

They only maintained an armed body at the Eureka Stockade, because they could in no other way resist the raids of the troopers who were sent out licence-hunting.

From Project Gutenberg

This the Government might have learnt—and probably did learn—from the policemen disguised as diggers, who took part in the proceedings at the Eureka Stockade, for these communicated all they learnt, and no doubt a good deal more, to the officials in the Government camp.

From Project Gutenberg