From Napoleon, Alexander the Great, George Washington, and Winston Churchill, Western military 'heroes' have their stories recorded, shared, told and retold.
Their journals are kept in museums, statues erected in hundreds of cities, textbooks dedicated to singular moments in their lives, podcasts, books, television shows and blockbusters retell what it was all like.
But closer to home, the history of the Frontier Wars is far more hidden.
Thousands of Aboriginal men and women waged war against invading colonial forces, but here are just a few of those who's stories survived.
Pemulwuy
The Bidjigal warrior Pemulwuy was born in the 1750s around Kamay. His name, Pemulwuy, comes from the Dharug 'Bembul', meaning earth and 'Wuyan', meaning crow.
He was a tall, muscular man, his left eye was 'blemished', and one foot turned. Some say he was a Carradhy, or Cleverman, and his injury was sustained from the initiation ceremony.
After the colony was established in 1788, violence spread across Pemulwuy's ancestral homelands.
Engraving of 'Pimbloy' believed to be of Pemulwuy by Samuel John Neele Credit: State Library of Victoria
From May 1792, Pemulwuy led warriors in raids against the British. With their advanced knowledge of the Country, the men led a a guerrilla war against the invading forces striking at night, and setting fires to burn food sources.
Seven years later Pemulwuy and 100 warriors fought against the British on Burramattagal Lands, now Parramatta. During the fighting, Pemulwuy was shot.
Despite the belief he would die in the night, Pemulwuy survived. Eight months after he escaped. So, began the myth that Pemulwuy couldn't be killed by a bullet.
As the 1800s began, Pemulwuy became the most wanted man in the colony with the newly installed Governor Phillip King offering a reward for his capture, dead or alive.
In June 1802, Pemulwuy was shot dead by a settler. He was beheaded, and his head was sent to botanist Joseph Banks in England. To this day, the whereabouts of Pemulwuy's head is unknown.
Windradyne
The Wiradjuri warrior is believed to have been born around 1800, and became a key figure in his people's resistance to colonial expansion.
Settlement was expanding into Wiradjuri Country between 1820 and 1824, particularly around the township of Bathurst.
Wiradjuri people were pushed off Country as it was cleared and granted to settlers.
Violence increased, and on August 4 1824, Governor Brisbane of New South Wales declared martial law - which allowed the killing of any Aboriginal person west of Mount York on the Great Dividing Range.
It's a period of history now referred to as the Bathurst War, and the Sydney Gazette at the time labelled it the "exterminating war".
In December of 1824, Windradyne and other Wiradjuri people travelled to Parramatta to attend the Governor's feast. There the warrior spoke to the Governor, calling for an end to the killing, and wearing a hat with the word "peace" written in English on the forehead.
Windradyne's request was granted and martial law was repealed.
Five years later, Windradyne died and was buried on the Brucedale property, home of the Suttor family who provided refuge to Wiradjuri people during the frontier conflicts.
The plaque that sits on his grave recognises the warrior as a "true patriot".
Yagan
Statue of Yagan on Heirisson Island. Credit: http://library.trinity.wa.edu.au
One day, Yagan witnessed the shooting of a young boy near the homestead of Archibald Butler and retaliated by spearing a servant, labourer William Gaze.
He was arrested and sentenced for murder in 1832, and spent six weeks detained on Carnac Island. Despite having never seen or used a boat, Yagan escaped with two others, stole a boat and sailed 13 kilometres back to the shore.
For a year Yagan evaded capture, earning a reputation amongst the Perth colony. A minister, Robert Lyon became intrigued by Yagan and started lobbying for him to be excused from the death penalty.
However, in 1833 Yagan was ambushed by William and James Keates and killed. He was beheaded, and his head was sent to England and kept in the Liverpool Museum.
In 1997, his remains were repatriated and buried on Country.
Today, the centre of Perth's CBD is named Yagan Square, in his honour.
Musquito
Born on the northern shore of Port Jackson, Musquito was believed to be Eora.
He began raiding settlements in the Hawkesbury by 1805, leading to his arrest and imprisonment in Parramatta, before being exiled to Norfolk Island for eight years, and then Launceston, Tasmania.
His brother won the then NSW Governor, Lachlan Macquarie's consent for Musquito to return. But he stayed down south.
By 1817, he was working as a tracker, hunting down bushrangers. However, he morphed into a bit of a bushranger himself. He formed an alliance with other Aboriginal people who'd be pushed to the fringes of settlements.
The group of almost 30 people conducted raids on farms and killed stock workers between 1823 and 1824.
But, in August of 1824 Musquito was caught and charged with aiding and abetting the murder of a stockhand. He was alongside another Aboriginal man Black Jack.
In February of the following year, the pair were hanged at Old Hobart Gaol.
Jandamarra
Hailing from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Jandamarra was believed to be born around 1870.
The Bunuba man was raised on Lennard River station so learnt how to ride a horse as a young boy. As he grew, he earned a reputation as a talented stockman.
At 15, he returned to Bunuely and was initiated as a Bunuba man.
In 1889, he was arrested for killing sheep, but his charges were dropped when he agreed to care for the police horses.
Eventually, he became a stockman and joined the police as a tracker, requiring him to capture Aboriginal people who had been killing livestock.
One evening, he killed Constable Bill Richardson in his sleep, releasing 16 Aboriginal prisoners. After, Jandamarra joined his people in fighting the European expansion onto Bunuba Country.
He fought alongside fifty ochre-painted Bunuba warriors at the Battle of Windjana Gorge on November 16, 1894. He was severely injured and spent two years in hiding, recovering.
In 1895, he raided Lillimooloora police station, shocking the police who had thought him dead.
In March of the following year, he and 20 others raided Oscar Range Homestead. A close call, but Jandamarra escaped with his life again.
Tarenorerer
Walyer by Julie Downing Credit: National Gallery of Australia
During her time with the sealers, she became fluent in English and learnt how to use a gun.
In 1828, she escaped the sealers and returned to her Country, gathering her people for war. She led guerilla warfare against colonial forces which included the killing of livestock. She also taught the warriors how to use guns.
It's believed that after conflicts with other clan groups, Tarenorerer along with her two brothers and two sisters, travelled to Port Sorrell.
There, she was captured by sealers and taken to Bird Island, where she managed to remain unidentified, and was known to the sealers as 'Mary Anne'.
In 1830, she was taken to Swan Island as it was believed she was planning to kill the sealers. Eventually she was identified and arrested.
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He isolated Tarenorerer from her people in an attempt to stop further resistance. He believed the "peace and tranquillity of those districts" a "matter of considerable importance".
She died on June 5, 1831 after falling ill with influenza.
Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner
Some of Truganini's companions during a brief guerrilla campaign. Maulboyheener and Tunnerminnerwait are honoured as martyrs; they became the first people executed publicly in tjhe state of Victoria.
In 1841, Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheener stole weapons from settlers and began six weeks of warfare across the Mornington Peninsula and into the Dandenongs. The two men, and the three women who accompanied them, burned stations, destroyed food sources and killed two sealers.
All five were captured and whilst the women were acquitted, the men were charged with murder and given the death penalty. They are buried where Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market now stands.
