Eureka Stockade book
The surprisingly short but bloody battle at the gravel pits on the Eureka diggings, which began just before dawn on the Sunday morning of 3 December 1854, was a dramatic conclusion to months of heated agitation on the Ballarat diggings.
The battle at the Eureka Stockade, a crude embattlement of broken drays, fallen logs and stakes driven into the ground, lasted for less than half an hour. And yet it left twenty-two diggers and six troopers of the 40th Regiment mortally wounded or already dead. Short lived though the rebellion was, the results of the Eureka Stockade were far-reaching - giving birth to the desire for true democracy in the nascent Australian nation.
