| Site Name | Raffles Bay, NT |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Iwaidja |
| Colony | NSW |
| Present State/Territory | NT |
| Police District | Sydney |
| Latitude | -11.253 |
| Longitude | 132.421 |
| Date | 30 Jul 1827 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 30 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: 30 men, women and children. Wounded: men and women. |
| Attackers | Colonisers: Foot soldiers |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: male, female; wounded: male, female. |
| Transport | Foot |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | muskets, cannon |
| Narrative | Captain Henry Smyth 39th Regiment, commandant at the British Settlement at Fort Wellington, ‘exasperated by ‘habitual pilfering’ by the Iwaidja, ‘and following the wounding of a soldier … responded by ordering an indiscriminate attack’ on the Iwaidja encampment with an 18 pounder cannon and killed up to 30 men, women and children. The order was carried out by Smyth and detachment of soldiers of 39th Regt. |
| Sources | HRA, III, v:816-20; HRA III, vi:.777; NLA AJCP Reel M793 f278; Wilson 1968: 148; Mulvaney 1989: 69; Connor 2002: 74; McKenna 2016: 73 (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
