The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars Hostile_encounter ( 1794–1816 ) were a series of incidents Hostile_encounter between settlers and New South Wales Corps and the Indigenous clans of the Hawkesbury river in west of Sydney that began Process_start in 1794 , when the British established Creating farms along the river .

The engagement Hostile_encounter resulted in Causation the defeat Conquering of the Hawkesbury river and Nepean river Indigenous clans who were subsequently dispossessed of their lands .

Their opponents had spent Expend_resource two weeks training Education_teaching for the match , an innovative concept at the time , but were repeatedly thwarted Preventing_or_letting by Charles Nepean , the Oxford goalkeeper .