| Site Name | Fitzgerald’s Burgurrah Station Maranoa Pastoral District |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Mandandanji or Bigambul or Wirray Wirray or Kogai |
| Colony | NSW |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Police District | |
| Latitude | -27.952 |
| Longitude | 148.67 |
| Date | Between 1 Jan 1848 and 31 Dec 1848 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 40 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M 40, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: Stockman |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, muskets, blades, swords |
| Narrative | In response to an Aboriginal attack on the station, 'a lot of Stockmen mustered to fight them with swords and guns they charged the blacks on horseback shooting and cutting them down as they fled. A few of the whites were wounded but none killed. About forty of the blacks were slain inlcuding one of the Chiefs' (Milliss 1980: 70) Carried out by at least 10 armed stockmen. |
| Sources | Collins 2002: 20; Milliss 1980: 70; MacPherson 1879:13 (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | ** |
