Eureka Stockade

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

Example Sentences

We saw in the distance the Eureka Stockade, where the miners made their celebrated defence against the authorities.

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This frail enclosure received the name of the Eureka Stockade.

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But the authorities need not have supposed, that the men in the Eureka Stockade were the same who had offered this resistance.

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The famous affair of the Eureka Stockade in 1854 is an interesting illustration.

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